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Sarah Lashinsky | UX/UI Designer with Soul for Social Good

Sarah Lashinsky shines as a creative creature with a social good soul. As a Georgia Tech grad toting an industrial design degree, Lashinsky is geek chic with specialties ranging from UX/UI to visual storytelling. This Goldilocks has worked for startup sweethearts, like Safi Choo and STE(A)M Truck,

Iron Yard Tech Talent

Javascript Star Makes Language Come to Life On & Off Screen

Mallerie Shirley is a Javascript junkie after completing The Iron Yard's front-end immersive. Shirley brings pages to user perfection on-screen and sign language to life off-screen. This visual virtuoso is ready to create something stellar from a blank slate and tackle life in the tech terrain. What program

Jocelyne Williams on Motivating Millennials Toward Leadership

Jocelyne Williams on Motivating Millennials Toward Leadership

As a senior business analyst and upcoming panelist of Innovative Leadership at General Assembly, Jocelyne Williams thrives in connecting developers and business users in perfect harmony. A mover and shaker for female empowerment, diversity, and inclusion, Williams is setting the standard of a motivating millennial trailblazer. We recently caught up

SidePrize CEO on Saving a Startup from the Ashes

SidePrize CEO on Saving a Startup from the Ashes

No salary, working out of a tiny office, long hours — many startup leaders are prepared for those and other challenges posed by building your own company. But what about getting caught in the unforeseen crossfire of legal and PR nightmares? Adam Wexler, founder and CEO of SidePrize, experienced that crossfire

Women Who Lead & Light Up Atlanta's Tech Ecosystem

Women Who Lead & Light Up Atlanta's Tech Ecosystem

The underrepresentation of women in entrepreneurship continues to be a disappointing conversation. While females now command 58% of the workforce and hold a higher number of bachelor and graduate degrees than their male counterparts, the number of IT jobs held by women has actually decreased over the last 25 years.

When it Comes to UX, Gerald Willis Knows What He's Talking About

When it Comes to UX, Gerald Willis Knows What He's Talking About

Gerald Willis is a graphic designer turned user experience wizard with thanks to General Assembly's UX Immersive Program. When he's not perfecting his clickable user prototypes, you can find him hitting up Atlanta meetups or perusing Rosenfeld Media e-books. No company size is too big or

Ruthless Prioritization | The Art (and Science) of Saying No

Ruthless Prioritization | The Art (and Science) of Saying No

Being a ruthless prioritization guru is not something that is inherent in an entrepreneur or product gal’s DNA, it is a skill honed from extended tours of duty in the product and corporate battlefields. In this day and age of abundant tools, easy to access platforms, and SaaS/PaaS/