Jessica McKellar and Shadeed Wallace-Stepter are speaking at North Bay Python 2019
Hello Pythonistas!
Our final featured speakers — Jessica McKellar and Shadeed "Sha" Wallace-Stepter — are joining us at North Bay Python 2019 to share a story of important and impactful work teaching Python here in the North Bay.
Jessica is a former director of the Python Software Foundation, and the PyCon US Diversity Outreach Chair. She works as founder and CTO of Pilot, a bookkeeping firm powered by software. Recently, Jessica's activism work has focused on criminal justice reform.
She works with The Last Mile, a job training and re-entry program that has implemented the first computer programming curriculum inside US prisons. Jessica teaches Python at San Quentin State Prison in California, and hires formerly incarcerated software engineers, bridging between the tech industry and prisons to get people activated and acting for decarceration.
Sha is a graduate of The Last Mile. While he was serving a 27-year to life sentence in prison for assault with a firearm and attempted robbery — a crime committed in his junior year of high school — Sha discovered entrepreneurship, Python, video and audio production, and the power of storytelling. He also learned to be accountable for the harm caused as a young person and what it means now to make living amends.
After serving more than 18 years in prison, on August 17, 2018 California Governor Jerry Brown commuted Sha's life sentence and released him from prison. Sha spends this part of his life being of service by promoting inclusion and working to build a community that sees the value of all its members based on who they are today, and not who they were during the early parts of their lives.
We're looking forward to Sha sharing his moving and inspirational story, and Jessica sharing her work helping people to rejoin society, and growing the Python community in new and important ways.
If you want to join us at North Bay Python 2019, remember, you can find tickets at https://northbaypython.org/attend and hotel rooms (there's still some rooms at Hotel Petaluma) at https://northbaypython.org/attend/hotels
See you in Petaluma in November,
--Chris and the North Bay Python 2019 team
Our final featured speakers — Jessica McKellar and Shadeed "Sha" Wallace-Stepter — are joining us at North Bay Python 2019 to share a story of important and impactful work teaching Python here in the North Bay.
Jessica is a former director of the Python Software Foundation, and the PyCon US Diversity Outreach Chair. She works as founder and CTO of Pilot, a bookkeeping firm powered by software. Recently, Jessica's activism work has focused on criminal justice reform.
She works with The Last Mile, a job training and re-entry program that has implemented the first computer programming curriculum inside US prisons. Jessica teaches Python at San Quentin State Prison in California, and hires formerly incarcerated software engineers, bridging between the tech industry and prisons to get people activated and acting for decarceration.
Sha is a graduate of The Last Mile. While he was serving a 27-year to life sentence in prison for assault with a firearm and attempted robbery — a crime committed in his junior year of high school — Sha discovered entrepreneurship, Python, video and audio production, and the power of storytelling. He also learned to be accountable for the harm caused as a young person and what it means now to make living amends.
After serving more than 18 years in prison, on August 17, 2018 California Governor Jerry Brown commuted Sha's life sentence and released him from prison. Sha spends this part of his life being of service by promoting inclusion and working to build a community that sees the value of all its members based on who they are today, and not who they were during the early parts of their lives.
We're looking forward to Sha sharing his moving and inspirational story, and Jessica sharing her work helping people to rejoin society, and growing the Python community in new and important ways.
If you want to join us at North Bay Python 2019, remember, you can find tickets at https://northbaypython.org/attend and hotel rooms (there's still some rooms at Hotel Petaluma) at https://northbaypython.org/attend/hotels
See you in Petaluma in November,
--Chris and the North Bay Python 2019 team
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