Women@NCSA invites you to attend our Zoom screening of She Started It on Wednesday, 12/2 from 2:00 - 3:00 P.M. Launched in 2013, She Started It is a feature-length documentary film on women tech entrepreneurs, shot on location in Silicon Valley, NYC, Europe, Vietnam, Mississippi & more, that aims to highlight successful role models for young women. It is the first film to show the behind the scenes of running a tech start-up as a young woman. Join us as we follow five women who will stop at nothing to pursue the tech startup of their dreams. Watch the trailer here.
SYNOPSIS
Following five women over two years as they pitch VCs, build teams, bring products to market, fail and start again, SHE STARTED IT takes viewers on a global roller coaster ride from San Francisco to Mississippi, France, and Vietnam. Along the way, it weaves in big-picture perspectives from women like investor Joanne Wilson; White House CTO Megan Smith; GoldieBlox CEO Debbie Sterling; and Ruchi Sanghvi, the first female engineer at Facebook.
Through intimate, action-driven storytelling, SHE STARTED IT explores the cultural roots of female underrepresentation in entrepreneurship—including pervasive self-doubt, fear of failure, and risk aversion among young women. It exposes, too, the structural realities women face as they become entrepreneurs, including lack of female role models and investors and the persistent dearth of venture capital funding made available to women-led companies.
Join the Zoom Meeting here:
https://illinois.zoom.us/j/87288799015?pwd=TjdKQ1dYdncvSFdZUHJvYmp6NlFnQT09
Meeting ID: 872 8879 9015
Password: 771860
Phone one-tap: +13126266799, 87288799015# US (Chicago), +13017158592, 87288799015# US (Washington D.C)
This event is open to all affiliates, friends, and staff of NCSA. Click here to download the .ics event file to add this to your calendar. We look forward to seeing you there!
Thanks,
Women@NCSA Organizing Committee
Kalina Borkiewicz
Sophie Bui
Jewel Goodly
