DCFT Powerful Women Awards
The DCFemTech Awards will recognize Power Women Programmers & Designers based in the Washington, DC region. We'll congratulate women who are working in the trenches of tech & design to help their company or organization achieve success, sometimes entirely behind the scenes.
2015 Winners
| Powerful Women Programmers |
|---|
| Alisha Ramos, Front-End Designer, Vox Media |
| Allison Carnwath, Senior Front-End Developer, Siteworx |
| Allison McMillan, Engineer, General Assembly |
| Ally Palanzi, Front-End Engineer, Vox Media |
| Betsy Haibel, Senior Developer, Optoro |
| Brenda Egeland, Director of Technology, All'asta |
| Carrie Xianyu, Senior .Net Developer, Creative Information Technology |
| Dolores Farley, Senior Software Engineer, AOL |
| Emily Williamson, Software Engineer, The Motley Fool |
| Jacqueline Kazil, Innovation Specialist, 18F |
| Jess Garson, Organizing Data Specialist, National Education Association |
| Joanne Garlow, Lead Programmer, NPR |
| Judy Jow, Software Engineer, Social Tables |
| Kaitlin Devine, Director of Engineering, 18F |
| Leah Bannon, Product Manager, 18F |
| Lisa Chung, Senior Developer, The Motley Fool |
| Lisa Nohealani Morton, Software Team Lead, NGP VAN |
| Marakie Getachew, Lead Developer, AFL-CIO |
| Megan Zlock, Front-End Developer, Viget |
| Molly Pickral, Lead Software Developer, Interfolio |
| Pamela Vong, Tech Wizard, InfernoRed Technology |
| Rebecca Bilbro, Data Scientist, Department of Labor, OSHA |
| Rebecca Goodman-Sudik, IT Specialist, Smithsonian Libraries |
| Samantha Quiñones, Principal Software Engineer, AOL |
| Savani Tatake, Technical Director, Siteworx |
| Selina Musuta, Jr. Front End Developer, Democratic National Committee |
| Shannon Turner, Founder, Hear Me Code |
| Sonia Hinson, Program Assistant, Syrian American Medical Society |
| Stephanie Nguyen, Cofounder, Landmark |
| Xiaoyan Yin, Principal Software Engineer, AOL |
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Nomination Process
DCFemTech opened the call for nominations for outstanding women programmers/engineers and designers based in the DC region on February 24, 2016 and received 190 submissions. The awards were expanded to include a design category for 2016 as a result of the overwhelming response in 2015.
Nominations were down selected by a committee made up of twelve women programmers, engineers, designers and executives for each category.
This year’s programmer recipients were chosen based on: Impact on organization (helped company/non-profit grow & achieve goals); Complexity of issues addressed with code (building a webpage vs. a complex system); Impact on community (contributed to broader tech/women in tech community or open source contributions).
The design recipients were selected based on similar criteria: Impact on organization (helped company/non-profit grow & achieve goals); Complexity of issues addressed with design (designing a platform that provides a great user experience vs. one page website); and Impact on community (contributed to broader tech/women in tech community or open source contributions).