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Julia Nguyen is a software engineer, writer, and Prompt speaker from Toronto. Julia is the founder of if me, an open source mental health communication app. She organized mentorship initiatives at the University of Waterloo Women in Computer Science Undergraduate Committee. She is the lead organizer of Southeast Asian Ladies in Tech, and organizes meetups for the San Francisco chapter of Write/Speak/Code.

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Are You More Than Okay: The State of Mental Health in Tech in 2016

Our efforts in supporting mental health must be comprehensive.

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Exclusion and Exceptionality in the Pipeline

In computer science classrooms across high schools and universities, minorities are excluded and exit early in the pipeline.

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The Pressures of Success in Undergraduate Computer Science Programs

There is a major problem with the education system.