Women Talk Design Speaker Stories: Alana Washington

About Women Talk Design Speaker Stories

There isn’t one singular path to public speaking. Folks decide to speak for a variety of reasons, get started in different ways, and have their own techniques for preparing for talks and dealing with nerves.

Learn about the journeys and experiences of incredible women and nonbinary speakers with our new series: Women Talk Design Speaker Stories. Join us each week as we interview one of our speakers to learn the topics they are currently speaking about and why, how they find speaking opportunities, their advice for getting started with public speaking, and more.

You’ll have the opportunity to ask your own questions and connect with folks from the Women Talk Design community. We hope you’ll leave inspired to share your own ideas and experiences, and get out there and speak.

Stick around after the conversation for breakout discussions. During this time you can connect with other people in the Women Talk Design community and discuss what you learned.

Agenda

• 5 minutes | Welcome
• 20 minutes | Conversation with Alana Washington
• 20 minutes | Audience Q&A
• 15 minutes | Breakout conversations

Come with your questions! We’ll see you soon.

About our Speaker

Alana Washington is a design leader, strategist, and researcher. Currently, Alana is a leading design operations at Uber Freight. Previously, Alana was a Strategy Director for Data Experience Design at Capital One. In that role, Alana worked alongside design leaders to build out a Data Experience Design practice that would partner with engineers and business managers working on the most challenging of problems in AI.

During her time at Capital One, Alana led a “Fairness in AI” initiative – pulling together stakeholders from across the organization to unify and amplify Capital One’s thought leadership in this space.

Alana is driven by an innate curiosity to help others solve the unsolvable and to create solutions for people that genuinely impact their daily lives.

Alana was featured as one of InVision’s “6 of the Most Influential Women in UX Today” and she was profiled in “28 Days of Black Designers”. She holds a master’s degree in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from New York University. 

Alana is currently a Conference Curator for the Design Ops Summit and has spoken conferences, festivals, and events including UX Week, Convey UX, AIGA, and Designers + Geeks. She most recently delivered the opening keynote for SF Design Week entitled, "6 Tips for Surviving a Racism Pandemic".

Event Details:

The $5 ticket fee goes directly to our speakers. We don’t want anyone to be turned away due to lack of funds. If the ticket fee is a barrier, please use the code THANKSXD to register for a free ticket, thanks to AdobeXD.

You will receive a link to join the Zoom 24 hours prior to the event.

Automated captioning will be available.

The event is open to everyone. Please take a moment to read through Women Talk Design's Code of Conduct before RSVPing. You can see a complete list of Women Talk Design's upcoming events here.

Special Thanks:

Thanks to AdobeXD for their sponsorship of this event series.