About Us

Inspired by the opportunity to create a community to support and advance women in technology, the Women in Technology (WiT) organization at Enova was co-founded in 2014 by Parul Schroff, Valerie Concepcion and a few other Enova women engineers.

WiT along with this year’s ChiWiTCon™ is designed to bring the achievements, aspirations, and career interests of women in technology to the forefront.

Here is the team behind ChiWiTCon™ – 2018:

• Vanessa Huerta Granda
• Ana Lebron
• Anita Khandekar
• Jasmine Kent
• Ramya Kannan
• Cecilia Fischer-Benitez
• Neha Bhardwaj
• Michelle Waldorf
• Cynthia Hayward
• Bridget Ascenzo
• Natale Anfuso
• Angel Shparber
• Shayna Oriold
• Srivathsava Rangarajan
• Sierra Navarro
• Read Penn
• Rishabh Krishna
• Karen Nowicki
• Emina Dervovic
• Venecia Alvarez
• Jungmin Cho
• Anna Shiring
• Jessica Gao
• Sandra Garcia
• Jessica Jackson
• Iesha Cleveland

Previous events hosted by Chicago Women in Tech:

• Our first event! Code Night with Women Who Code
• Ms. Tech Talks: Career Transitions into Technology
• Girl Develop It: SQL Basics, Joins and Advanced Topics
• ARA: Breaking Barriers: Lessons Learned from Trailblazing Women
• Women Who Code: Raspberry Pi Hacknight
• PyLadies: Data Analytics with Python
• Women Who Code: Testing with Cucumber
• Anita Borg Institute: Set your goals and envision the year
• Field trip for Girls Who Code