Evan Perlmutter from Marqii talks about his experience hiring with Awana and the developers he is now working with in Latin America.

An honest conversation about the tools, tricks and mindset to keep going and growing in tech. Get a few tips on how to take charge of your career growth with Alexandra Paredes. Ale Paredes is an Engineering Manager at Stripe and one of the founders of Latinas in Tech NYC. Currently, based in Brooklyn NY. She’s passionate about growing inclusive teams and fostering environments where everyone can do their best work, build resilient and scalable systems, and deliver impactful solutions.

Welcome to the Find your Llama 🔥 presented by Hire Llama, where we invite latinas in tech who have made it to the top to discuss how they did it and get some inspiration to keep walking towards our dream jobs. Today we have Valentina Pozzebon, UX/UI designer from Mendoza, Argentina. She started her journey as an Editorial Designer to later find her passion designing user experiences. With 6+ years designing engaging user-centered interfaces for diverse industries, Valentina has offered rapid but effective interaction solutions. Valentina has experience in active listening, agile methodologies and working with worldwide clients and multidisciplinary teams.

Being a mother is hard. Pile on top of that these days with COVID, work, and if you just had a newborn breast feeding. The life for a mother is extremely tough and Adriana has created a device that allows mothers to have one less hassle, or maybe two when you listen. Adriana holds a Masters in Integrated Product Design from UPenn and a BSc from MIT in Mathematics and Computer Science. She and her co-founder are YC and NSF I-Corps fellows and their patent was recognized as Philadelphia’s invention of the year in 2019. She has been named one of the top 30 Femtech Healthcare Influencers in 2019 and has won awards such as the SheKnows BlogHer competition (2019) and the AlphaLabGear Hardware cup (2018). She has represented Lilu at SXSW, and TechCrunch Battlefield, and this year she is an Anita.B Org 2020 PitcHer finalist. In her spare time Adriana loves to run, cycle and attempting to snowboard.

In this week's episode we take a deep dive into the last mile that many people take in the under served population. Local public transportation has failed these people and Dollaride is doing something to fix this problem. CEO of Dollaride, Su Sanni, discusses how dollar vans have provided an essential service for many people throughout the Burroughs of New York. We discuss how public transportation has failed many New Yorkers and with budget cuts Dollaride becomes ever increasingly more important, especially in under represented areas. Through the podcast we will discuss what transportation deserts are, how Su Sanni got into dollar vans, and are dollar vans illegal?

Our host, Trinell Ball, chats with Andrew Miller. Andrew is a city-builder, urbanist, and futurist, who specializes in mobility, land use, and the public realm, and how to ensure that each enriches the rest. He brings 20 years of experience spanning academia; government at the municipal, provincial, and federal levels; and private sector advisory. Also, he is a leading expert in smart cities, particularly in the mobility networks that will link together the cities of the future. He combines this experience with rigorous problem solving and project management. He has improved public transit operations, optimized bike-lane design, and designed infrastructure cities to benefit from automated vehicles. And he is a talented public speaker, firm ambassador, relationship-builder, and forger of consensus. He can take a mobility project and build a critical mass of success among government, residents, and thought leaders. 

Welcome to the Future of Work Podcast presented by Hire Llama, where we invite industry experts, and fellow entrepreneurs to discuss how in their industry or company the future is already changing.  Today we have Leslie Short the founder of The Cavu Group, a firm working with organizations and companies to build their diversity and inclusion foundation. We will be discussing what Diversity & Inclusion means in the workplace and how companies should be thinking of it now and in the future. Hire Llama is a recruitment platform and marketplace building software engineering teams for remote opportunities in Latin America with companies in the United States. #diversityandinclusion #D&I #Hirellama #Futureofwork

Trinell Ball interviews Brett Martin. Brett Martin is the Managing Partner of a small seed-stage venture fund called Charge Ventures. Charge is a NYC-based pre-seed/seed stage venture fund. They invest 200-500k at the earliest stages of company formation and then help founders take things from 0 to 1. Brett is an adjunct professor at Columbia Business School. His teaching focuses on product strategy and entrepreneurial finance but also has a few war stories to tell. Brett co-founded Switch, a mobile job discovery application, and Sonar, a location-based social network.  Today we will be talking about what is happening in AI/VR and a deeper dive into entrepreneurship and education. Future of travel and what will be happening next. #syntheticmedia #entrepreneurship #newmedia #whereareallthemodels

Join us this week as we discuss The Hiring Startup Environment and Setting Yourself Up for Success with our guest Virgginnia Buccioni-Hillmann. Virgginnia is an experienced senior recruiter form the Bay area. She will be discussing with us how the hiring environment is with startups in San Francisco and through out the US. She will also have tips for how to get ready for a startup interview and how to stand out in this competitive hiring environment.  Virgginnia's Bio  Virgginnia is a talent acquisition professional based in the Bay Area with a proven record of building and improving processes that help find companies find the right talent when they need it as well as orienting candidates on career advising and interviewing coaching. Her journey as a talent acquisition specialist has given her a well-rounded background in acquiring talent across many industries, including tech, non-profit, government relations and international organizations. Her current mission is to positively disrupt and improve startups’ strategies in hiring to make them streamlined and comprehensive, as well as including Diversity and Inclusion protocols to empower companies and talent alike with top-notch talent from underrepresented communities. Virgginnia has a business and political science background, and in her free time she enjoys surfing, yoga, and sommelier training.