This spring, some of Seattle’s brightest leaders began their journey as Cohort 4 of the WTIA Ion Collaborators. The program has undergone many evolutions since it was launched in June 2017, but its core mission remains the same: incubate cross-sector…
Thought leadership, the practice of sharing ideas and expertise through content, is something nearly every PR agency will offer as part of a comprehensive communications plan. It is indeed a core tenet of a successful marketing and PR strategy, and…
As we approach FullConTech, we’ve been gathering collaboration stories from a wide variety of sources in an effort to learn more about how people are working together to solve problems and what lessons they’re learning along the way. I recently…
Seattle CityClub will be joining WTIA on May 22 for FullConTech, an event that brings people together from across the public and private sectors for a morning focused on Civic Collaboration. CityClub, founded in 1980, is a non-partisan civic organization that “fosters civic engagement…
As we prepare for our May 22 FullConTech, the WTIA team has been immersing ourselves in all things civic collaboration, collecting great engagement and innovation stories and talking to community leaders who are working to inspire more people to get…
When Norman Rice become Seattle’s mayor in 1989, he stepped into a heated controversy. The city’s voters, by a narrow margin, had approved Initiative 34, which prevented the city government from spending money on public schools until the school board…
Being a part of the Seattle tech community – first at Microsoft, and then for the past 11 years at Zillow – has been a great experience. I’ve been able to grow and take on expanding levels of responsibility for…
Helping girls discover the vast opportunities for them in tech is a passion of mine, so I was elated when the coordinators of Bellevue College’s Expanding Your Horizons (EYH) high school conference found my bio in the FabFems directory and…
With overcrowded classrooms and a concerted focus on standardized testing, thinly-stretched teachers don’t have the resources or the time to monitor the emotional well-being of each and every student. And yet, the correlation between emotional well-being and academic performance is…
Technology education changes lives. In June, Stephen Fishburn, owner of Get Well Cities, and I officially launched Esperas. Esperas is a 12-month technology training internship for men and women exiting homelessness. In 12 months, Esperas trains interns for careers as…