Sarah Withee is a polyglot software engineer, public speaker, and mentor located in Pittsburgh, PA. As the Director of Programming for Abstractions, a multi-disciplinary conference with an open CFP, Sarah offered advice for potential speakers and shared her thoughts on being a generalist.

Links for this episode:<ul><li><a href="https://abstractions.io/cfp/" class="link" target="_blank">Abstractions CFP</a> </li><li><a href="https://lucybain.com/blog/2016/conference-proposal-ideas/" class="link" target="_blank">How to come up with conference proposal ideas</a> </li><li><a href="sarahwithee.com/now" class="link" target="_blank">Sarah&#x27;s Site</a> </li><li><a href="https://www.globaldiversitycfpday.com/" class="link" target="_blank">global diversity CFP day</a> </li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/geekygirlsarah" class="link" target="_blank">Sarah on Twitter (@geekygirlsarah)</a> </li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/abstractionscon" class="link" target="_blank">Abstractions on Twitter (@abstractionscon)</a> </li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/sprngr_" class="link" target="_blank">Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer</a> </li><li><a href="https://incompetech.com" class="link" target="_blank">Episode Music: &quot;Funkorama&quot; by Kevin MacLeod</a> </li></ul><h4>Brought to you by:</h4>

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