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Keynote 3

Adobo and Avocados: Intersectionality in Tech and Developer Advocacy

Marie Cruz

15:45-16:45, Tuesday 21st November

Being a woman in tech with South East Asian roots and an immigrant in Europe, it is often difficult to talk about lived experiences with other women. Specific topics don’t resonate with me but might resonate with other women, and vice-versa.

A term that I learned recently is “intersectionality.” Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw coined this term in 1989, but the word only made it to the dictionary in 2015.

Intersectionality refers to the overlap or intersection of various identity factors such as gender, race, class, nationality, ethnicity, etc. When overlapped, this creates a compound effect of unique experiences that can be seen as a disadvantage or an advantage.

In this talk, I want to share my experiences on how I got started in tech, what it’s like for me, as a member of a minority group, to navigate the day-to-day world of the tech industry, and why it’s also important to be represented in other areas, such as developer relations, and understand what adobo and avocados have to do with it.

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What you will Learn

  1. Learn how to understand intersectionality.
  2. Be able to look at situations from different perspectives.

Session Details

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  •  1 Hour
  • Includes 15mins Q&A
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Keynote 3

Adobo and Avocados: Intersectionality in Tech and Developer Advocacy

Session Speaker

Marie Cruz

Developer Advocate - k6.io at Grafana Labs, UK

Marie Cruz is a Software Tester with almost 10 years of experience working with various industries. Currently, she works as a Developer Advocate for k6.io, a Grafana Labs company, where she is focused on helping developers and testers from a performance testing perspective. In the past, she has been an Engineering Manager, where she was recruited for driving continuous testing, and quality improvements within the organization, and also a Principal Engineer focused on introducing recommended practices when it comes to testing and test automation frameworks. Marie is also a tech blogger at testingwithmarie.com, an international speaker, an accessibility advocate, and an online course instructor at Ministry of Testing and Test Automation University.

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