Geek Girl Rising: Inside the Sisterhood Shaking Up Tech

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By Samantha Parent Walravens ’90

Published April 18, 2017

Geek Girl Rising (St. Martin’s Press) gives a much-needed voice to the female engineers, entrepreneurs, investors and innovators paving an important path in the tech world. These women are busting the “brogrammer” stereotype and becoming the role models for the next generation. Samantha Walravens ’90 is a work-life expert and author of TORN: True Stories of Kids, Career & the Conflict of Modern Motherhood.

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