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I was born in a log cabin, with no running
water and no electricity, in Alaska.

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There's no roads to Barrow; you can't even drive there.

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When we lived up in the, in the native village,
people didn't go into technology. It wasn't

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something that kids in high school were
talking about as, as a potential thing to do.

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I knew early on: education is how I progress.

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My family didn't know a lot about education;
no one in my family had gone to college.

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I went to community college. I was then able to transfer
to Stanford, which was an amazing opportunity,

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and I'm able to say I got a degree from Stanford.
I got straight A's all the way through Stanford,

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and I paid for it by myself.

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I feel very lucky in the technology space to
have the flexibility that I have in my role.

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I'm able to work remotely, I'm able to work from
home, I'm able to work any time of day or night

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and that produces a huge amount of
flexibility in being able to be present and effective

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at my job, and be present and effective for
my family. I think when people think about developing,

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they think about sitting down and typing out long lines
of code, and people look at that and they go,

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"Well, I can't do that," but it's really not all of it.
That there are platforms like FileMaker,

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where you can interact with it. If you're a logical
thinker, if you're a critical thinker, if you know how to

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solve problems, you can code--you really can!
It's there, the platforms are there for you.

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So, I think that that concept of low code and helping
people understand, helping women understand

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what that means, really does help
to lower that barrier to entry.

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I would love for women who are in these
remote areas--like I was as a child--

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to know that it's accessible.

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So, I would say to a woman looking at this as,
I would say, "You can do this. There are women here

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who want to support you and who are
here for you. Please come join us."