Tech diversity and inclusion postmortem

Erica Baker is a senior engineer at Slack Technologies, where she focuses on build and release engineering. Erica is an advocate for diversity and inclusion in tech and expanding access to tech education. Previously, she was a support technician and site reliability engineer at Google, and her first role in the tech industry was doing domain administration for the University of Alaska statewide system. Erica is a member of the Girl Develop It board of directors and is on the advisory boards for Barbie, Atipica, and Hack the Hood. She is a founding member of Project Include, won the 2015 Level Playing Field Institute Lux Award, was a nominee for the 2016 Crunchies Include Diversity Award, and was included in Wired magazine’s 2016 Next List. Erica is currently based in Oakland, California.