Third Thursday Member Meeting
The Danville-Alamo-Walnut Creek Branch is hosting this meeting jointly with our neighboring AAUW San Ramon and AAUW Livermore-Pleasanton-Dublin branches.
All are welcome to attend – there is a $10 fee for non-AAUW members.
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About our speaker: Adamaka Ajaelo is an Oakland native, mathematician, and STEM trailblazer with an unshakeable passion for the social, emotional, and economic empowerment of young women of color. She is the founding Executive Director of Self-eSTEM, a non-profit organization with the mission to ignite pride, purpose, and possibility among girls by providing STEM training that strengthens digital, technical, and leadership skills, reinforcing their STEM identities. Since 2014, Self-eSTEM has unleashed the brilliance and self-esteem of 1,625+ girls through STEM. Celebrating 10 years of the organization’s impact, Adamaka is on a quest to ensure BIPOC women are recognized as top talent and innovators in STEM.
Adamaka pivoted out of tech from her role as a Director of Strategic Workforce Planning and Analytics at Visa, where she provided insights and recommendations influencing global workforce plans and talent development strategies. She has worked for over 17 years at large companies such as Kaiser Permanente, Cisco Systems, Workday, Meta (Facebook) and Adobe in the areas of finance, workforce planning and analytics and business continuity. She has managed a budget of $110M+, shaped a $5.0B global tech workforce through talent insights, and is an Angel Investor via Pipeline Investors.
As a visionary leader blending expertise in STEM education, strategic workforce planning, and people analytics to drive innovation and equity, Adamaka is passionate about using data-driven insights and inclusive practices to design solutions that uplift underrepresented groups in the workforce.
Adamaka received her BA in Mathematics from Occidental College in Los Angeles, CA, and her MBA in Finance and Leadership Management from Holy Names University in Oakland, CA. When she is not working, she enjoys attending Warriors basketball games, wine tasting, and traveling.
Policy for Attending Branch Functions
If you are feeling ill in any way or have been in close contact with someone known to have COVID or any other significant communicable disease, please do not attend any meeting!
We encourage you to be considerate of everyone attending a function, some of whom might be more susceptible than others. COVID exposure remains a serious issue. If you have any doubts, test, wear a mask, and err on the side of caution.
While there are inherent risks in attending any in-person event, with your help we will do our best to keep everyone safe at our meetings.