# Women in Leadership Across the Bay Area and Beyond

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**Published on:** 2019-04-07
**URL:** https://hardmodefirst.xyz/women-in-leadership-across-the-bay-area-and-beyond

## Content

There may be no better use case for Twitter than the crowd-sourced list. Yesterday morning, a speaker for an upcoming USV Women’s Leadership breakfast event had to cancel at the last minute. With less than 3 days’ notice, I took to Twitter to seek last-minute guests to join the ~30 women who had already RSVP’ed to attend. The results were astounding. In the end, I had a dozen Retweets or comments and even more DMs nominating the names of incredible women leaders all over the Bay Area and beyond. We only needed a few speakers for our session on Tuesday, but I thought this list was so compelling that it needed to be shared even more broadly. On my flight to the West Coast today, I aggregated everyone’s responses and nominations — 30 in total — and I thought I’d share them all below. Whether you’re looking for a speaker for your own event or a few new faces for your Twittter feed, I hope you’re all as inspired as I was in reading through what these women have accomplished. And to the three women who agreed to join us on Tuesday morning for our event — I can’t wait to meet you in person. Thanks, Twitterverse. Women in Leadership Across the Bay Area and Beyond: Lucy (Keoni) Baird Customer Success Operations & Programs, Censia Meg Bear SVP, Product & Engineering at Juvo @megbear Orchid Bertelsen Digital Innovation Lead, Nestlé USA @OrchidBertelsen Minela Bjelevac Senior Manager People Success at Y Media Labs @minelabje Stacy Brown-Philpot CEO at TaskRabbit @sbp04 Anne Dwane Co-founder and Partner, Village Global @adwane Katie Doherty Co-founder, Female Founder School Salma El Hariry Founder and CEO, S[k]alUp Ventures @SalmaElHariry Meagen Eisenberg CMO at TripActions @meisenber Carolyn Frey Chief People Office at Philz Coffee Amanda Weeks Geveden SVP, Managing Director at US Bank Julia Hartz CEO and Co-Founder of Eventbrite @juliahartz Caroline Huaranca Principal, Kapor Capital @carohuaranca Claire Hughes Johnson COO at Stripe @chughesjohnson Kim Jabal CFO at Weebly @kimjabal Pam Kostka CEO and Advisor @PamKostka Sarah Leary Co-founder and VP of Marketing & Operations at NextDoor @sarahleary Erica Lockheimer VP of Engineering, LinkedIn @EricaLockheimer Jana Messerschmidt Investor at Lightspeed Venture Partners @janamal Michelle E. Messina CEO and Founder, Explora International LLC JeanAnn Nichols Executive Coach @JeanAnn_Nichols Bhargavi Nuvvula Head of Corporate Technology, BNY Melon @BHARNUVV Katie O’Brien Penn Director of Platform Marketing, Twitch @ktopenn Lexi Reese COO at Gusto @lexir Camille Ricketts Notion HQ @CamilleRicketts Diana Rothschild Head of Strategic Partnerships, TaskRabbit @DianaRothschild Sarah Shewey Founder and CEO, Happily @pinkcloud Sally Thornton CEO and Founder, Forshay @SallyThornton Yasmeen Turayhi Author: Product Marketing Debunked Jill Wetzler Director of Engineering at Lyft @JillWetzler Originally published at Dry Erase.

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