Writing and Speaking
I’ve been writing and giving talks on my work involving software engineering, my open source project if-me.org, and mental health activism since 2014. If you would like to invite to me to write or speak, please contact me. I only do paid engagements, especially for corporate organizations. Events must have an adequate code of conduct and provide live-captioning and/or sign language interpretation.
2024
Coding for Community: If Me’s Decade of Open Source Impact 🔗
Interview, GitHub
2023
Effective ways developers can learn from user feedback 🔗
Panelist, LeadDev
Riding the Ever-Changing Waves of the Front-end Like a Neopian 🔗
Speaker, Software Architecture Superstream: Frontend Architectures for O’Reilly
Riding the ever-changing waves of front-end development 🔗
Writer, LeadDev
2021
Keynote Speaker, Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital and the Autism Research Centre
Keynote Speaker, Vimeo’s May Mental Health Awareness Month Event
2020
Learning Web Development through if-me.org 🔗
Volunteer Teacher, Code Cooperative (now Emergent Works) Workshop Series
2019
Ayana Miller on Privacy & Data Governance and Julia Nguyen on Mental Health Tech for Good 🔗
Interview by Shane Hastie, QInfo Podcast
Impact Starts With You 🔗
Speaker, QCon SF
I’m Not Well and That’s Okay
Keynote Speaker, Redefining Crazy: It’s the System, Not the People – Mental Health Association of San Francisco Conference
I’m Not Well and That’s Okay
Keynote Speaker, AnxietyTech NYC
Navigating Front-end Architecture Like a Neopian 🔗
Speaker, LeadDev London
Mental Health in Tech 🔗
Interview by Jessica Rose, Pursuit Podcast
Speaker, Open Source North
I’m Not Well and That’s Okay 🔗
Keynote Speaker, University at Buffalo Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Navigating Front-end Architecture Like a Neopian
Keynote Speaker, Write/Speak/Code San Francisco Open Source Hours
2018
Civic Hack Night feat. Julia Nguyen, Founder, if me
Keynote Speaker, Code for San José
2017
We’re All in This Together: Mental Health in Tech Communities
Panelist, Grace Hopper Conference
I’m not well and insecurities I’ve felt side hustling 🔗
Writer, if-me.org
Two Households, Both Alike in Dignity: A Not-So-Tragedy of Refactoring Front-end APIs 🔗
Speaker, QCon NY
Speaker, Newbie Remote Conf
What it Means to Contribute to if me 🔗
Speaker, SFHTML5 Code For Good Week
Two Households, Both Alike in Dignity: A Not-So-Tragedy of Refactoring Front-end APIs 🔗
Speaker, Curry On! Barcelona
Speaker, NerdWallet NerdTalks
i18n + if me 🔗
Speaker, Google’s Open Source Show & Tell
Are You More Than Okay: Mental Health in Tech Communities
Speaker, An Evening of Conversation about Mental Health in Tech
2016
Are You More Than Okay: The State of Mental Health in Tech in 2016 🔗
Writer, Model View Culture
Open Sourcing Mental Health 🔗
Interview by Saron Yitbarek, Code Newbie Podcast
Speaking Her Truth: Q& A with Julia Nguyen founder of if me 🔗
Interview by Myisha T. Hill, Huffington Post Blog
Exploring Mental Illness With Open Source
Keynote Speaker, Open Source Bridge
An Ugly Side of Women in Tech Organizations 🔗
Writer, Medium
Spirals and Storytelling
Speaker, Ability in Tech Summit
2015
Spirals and Storytelling 🔗
Keynote Speaker, DevTO’s International Women’s Day Talks #IWDTO
Lessons I’ve Learned Being a Tech Intern 🔗
Writer, Code Like A Girl
Technically Inexperienced: A pseudo-memoir, quasi-rant on my several months of new grad software engineering interviews 🔗
Writer, Tech Diversity Files
Speaker, WaffleJS
Teaching, Dreamforce
Failure, Privilege, and Mental Health
Speaker, Tech Inclusion Conference
Finding Hope Through Tech 🔗
Writer, Stories from Women in Tech Blog
Changing the face of STEM education 🔗
Interview with Julie Stauffer, University of Waterloo Alumni Magazine
Opening up Conversations about Mental Health in Computer Science Education
Speaker, Self Conference
Immigrants also have to challenge their own culture’s mental health stigma 🔗
Writer, Al Jazeera’s coverage on the People of Color + Mental Illness Photo Project
Opening Up Conversations About Mental Health in Computer Science Education 🔗
Speaker, 360|Intersect
Exclusion and Exceptionality in the Pipeline 🔗
Writer, Model View Culture
Get to Know: Women in Computing
Writer, University of Waterloo Women in Computer Science Club
2014
Speaker, NY PHP
Tackling Mental Health in STEM Education 🔗
Speaker, Women Who Code San Francisco
None of the Boys: Female Identity in STEM 🔗
Writer, Shameless Magazine
The Pressures of Success in Undergraduate Computer Science Programs 🔗
Writer, Model View Culture