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Michelle Glauser is the founder and CEO of Techtonica, a nonprofit based in San Francisco that provides tuition-free tech training to low-income women and nonbinary adults. She leads PyLadiesSF, and she also helped make the #ILookLikeAnEngineer ad campaign go viral in 2015! We talk about non-traditional paths into tech, advice for advocacy, and her mission to help underrepresented people join, feel comfortable in, and stay in the software industry!

Riley Doyle is the founder, CEO and Technical Lead of Desktop Genetics, a London-based bioinformatics company established in 2012, that specializes in processing data from the breakthrough CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing technique. No biology experience necessary to appreciate this episode! We chat CRISPR, startups, and what it’s like to raise money for a “hard” startup outside of Silicon Valley.