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Kathryn Presner: From Shadows to Limelight – How Women Found Their Voice At WordCamp Montreal

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  1. Marjorie Ray, Codewryter
    December 13, 2016 at 8:16 am | Reply

    Loved this talk. Inspiring to see this WordCamp grow from a handful of women speakers to 50% in a few years with a clear path for how this was achieved.

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December 11, 2016

At Montreal’s first WordCamp, only four women spoke throughout the two-day, two-track event. People noticed. It didn’t feel right. Something had to change. By 2016, we’d had two straight WordCamps with at least 50% women speakers. How did we get from there to here? I’ll look at some of the strategies we used to #changetheratio.

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WordCamp US 2016 52

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Kathryn Presner 21

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empowerment 3
Voice 5
women 7

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