Featured Founder - Leanne Pittsford, Founder & CEO, Lesbians Who Tech & Allies

Meet Leanne Pittsford, Founder & CEO of Lesbians Who Tech & Allies, Welcoming You to Her Queer, Inclusive and Badass Squad

About Leanne & Why She Created Lesbians Who Tech & Allies
It all started with a clear mission 🎯: to increase the much-needed visibility and intersectionality within the technology community for underrepresented queer women in tech and their allies🏳️‍🌈. 
After falling in love with tech while working at Equality California, Leanne Pittsford decided to make it happen,  founding Lesbians Who Tech & Allies, her Queer, Inclusive and Badass Squad!

Mission:
Based in the U.S,. Lesbians Who Tech & Allies is the largest LGBTQ community of technologists in the world. The community is changing the face of technology with 100,000 non-binary, LGBTQ+ women, and queer women of colour (and allies) across various races and ethnicities, abilities, and ages.

What they do:
Today Lesbians Who Tech has four main goals;

• (1) to be more visible to each other,
• (2) to be more visible to others,
• (3) to get more lesbians and allies into technology, and
• (4) to connect Lesbians Who Tech to other LGBTQ and Women's organizations who are already doing work for the community.

They host the Annual San Francisco Summit and Pride Summit bringing together over 30,000 people, making them the largest professional event of this type worldwide. Speakers include Stacey Abrams, an inspiring author, serial entrepreneur, nonprofit CEO and political leader. Annual Pride Summit is takes place 6th - 10th June 2022, so if you are interested in going, make sure you register here!
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We are so proud to feature Leanne and Lesbians Who Tech on InvestHer Directory, the world’s first global directory of companies founded or co-founded by women.

At Lesbians Who Tech, we believe that learning how to code is more than education --
it's economic opportunity 

That's why they also offer the Eddie Windsor Scholarship, named to honour the extraordinary work of Edie Windsor, including her work as a computer programming pioneer at IBM. This scholarship makes it possible for non-binary and LGBTQ women to learn how to code, kickstarting their careers in technology. Through this scholarship, Lesbians Who Tech hope not just to create communities but push the tech sector to be more inclusive. 

Follow Her,  Support Her, Buy from Her, Promote Her:

Interested in joining the community, attending a summit, applying for a scholarship or buying their merchandise?
Find out more on their website - https://lesbianswhotech.org/about/
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Instagram: @lwtech,
Facebook: @lesbianswhotech
Twitter: @lesbiantech

#CommunityChangesEverything 🏳️‍🌈