Bonus: Modern STEMinists by General Assembly
Womanica
Acast Creative Studios
4.3 • 920 Ratings
🗓️ 14 September 2019
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Summary
Every weekday, listeners explore the trials, tragedies, and triumphs of groundbreaking women throughout history who have dramatically shaped the world around us. In each 5 minute episode, we’ll dive into the story behind one woman listeners may or may not know -- but definitely should. These diverse women from across space and time are grouped into easily accessible and engaging monthly themes like Pioneers, Dreamers, Villainesses, STEMinists, Warriors & Social Justice Warriors, and many more. Encyclopedia Womannica is hosted by WMN co-founder and award-winning journalist Jenny Kaplan. The bite-sized episodes pack painstakingly researched content into fun, entertaining, and addictive daily adventures.
Encyclopedia Womannica was created by Liz Kaplan and Jenny Kaplan, executive produced by Jenny Kaplan, and produced by Liz Smith, Cinthia Pimentel, and Grace Lynch. Special thanks to Shira Atkins and Edie Allard. Theme music by Andi Kristins.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:06.6 | There's a vile sickness in Abbas town. |
| 0:10.4 | You must excise it. |
| 0:12.8 | Dig into the deep earth and cut it out. |
| 0:16.7 | From IHeart podcasts and Grimm and Mild from Aaron Manky, |
| 0:20.0 | this is Havoc Town. A new fiction podcast set in the Bridgewater Audio Universe, starring Jules State and Ray Wise. |
| 0:29.1 | Listen to Havoc Town on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:36.1 | Hello, from Wonder Media Network, I'm Jenny Kaplan, and this is Encyclopedia Womanica. |
| 0:43.3 | This week of Steminists is brought to you by General Assembly, an organization that |
| 0:48.6 | helps businesses build their employees' technology skills. |
| 0:52.2 | In that spirit, we're talking to a modern-day steminist about how Disney and General Assembly |
| 0:57.5 | partnered on Disney's Code Rosie program, which helped to create opportunities for diverse |
| 1:03.1 | engineers by re-skilling existing employees. |
| 1:06.6 | Jen Perez started her career at Disney attending to a toy story ride at one of the parks. |
| 1:11.8 | Then she started working at ESPN in production and editing. |
| 1:15.7 | Today, she's an associate software engineer at Walt Disney Animation Studios. |
| 1:21.0 | Jen's new life path started when she got an email from her supervisor telling her about Disney's |
| 1:25.8 | Code Rosie program, which gives women |
| 1:28.3 | in the company technical training and the chance to shift to a STEM role. |
| 1:33.3 | Looking for a new challenge, this modern-day STEMmanist signed up for the program, which included |
| 1:38.0 | a three-month software engineering immersive training, powered by General Assembly's |
| 1:42.5 | instructional team. Code Rosie offered a path out of the |
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