I’m available for public speaking, teaching, and podcast appearances on tech & non-alc topics – please get in touch via email.
Talks, workshops, writing – Tech
Here’s a selection of content I’ve created in recent years, along with links to recordings or slides, where available.
- LinkedIn Learning Online Course: Data Quality Testing with Great Expectations, 2026
- LinkedIn Learning Online Course: PySpark Essential Training: Introduction to Building Data Pipelines, 2025
- Podcast: Decompose.IO – Modern Data Stack (German), 2022
- “The Wonderful World of Data Quality in Python”
- Data Umbrella 2021 (demo repository and slides)
- Podcast: “Catalog & Cocktails” – Do you test your data? data.world podcast, 2021
- “Building a robust data pipeline with dbt, Airflow, and Great Expectations
- dbt Coalesce conference 2020 (recording)
- PyLadies Berlin 2021 (recording)
- ODSC East 2021 (updated demo repository and slides)
- “Learn to Bash!” and “Introduction to Terminal” Women Who Code workshop 2019 (initial version of the demo repository)
- PyLadies SWFL 2021 (updated demo repository)
- “Data testing and documentation with Great Expectations”
- Python Users Berlin 2020 (slides)
- “Your one-stop data shop – An intro to foreign data wrappers in Postgres”
- PostgresOpen 2019 (slides)
- “Messy Data and Reluctant Users – The Trouble with Healthcare Data”
- Infiniteconf 2019 (slides)
- DataCouncil NYC 2019 (recording)
- Introduction to healthcare data analysis with Pandas
- PyLadies Remote workshop 2019 (recording)
- Women Who Code NYC workshop 2019 (slides)
- Power To Fly Lunch & Learn: Getting The Most From Your Data, Ask A Data Insights Engineer 2018
- “Inspiring the next generation of Girl Geeks”, TEDx Huddersfield 2013
- Podcast: Sam & Nathan Rae talk about Manchester Girl Geeks, Northology podcast 2013
- Keynote talk, Hack to the Future 2012
- “Girls can love computing; someone just needs to show them how”, Guardian blog 2012
- Various academic conference and workshop papers and talks in the Description Logic and Semantic Web community, DBLP bibliography profile 2010-2014
Talks, workshops, writing – Non-alc
- “Bright Nights, Big City: My Substack covers all things non-alc and sober-friendly events in NYC
- I taught a Non-Alc Spirits 101 seminar for the United States Bartender’s Guild
- A full list of my media appearances can be found on the Bright Nights Social press page.
Creative side quests
- In 2022, I launched a series of non-alcoholic bar pop-up events in NYC called “Third Place Bar” (now Bright Nights Social).
- In 2021, I started the “Blog Cast” podcast, a podcast that features my favorite tech blog posts, read out loud (so you can listen while going for a walk, doing chores…): https://anchor.fm/blog-cast
- I hacked together the little Color Palette Bot, just because I really love generative art Twitter bots, and wanted to write some JavaScript: https://twitter.com/ColPaletteBot (now offline due to API changes).
- A bunch of my friends contributed to “Quaranzine”, a multi-media zine I put together on Thanksgiving 2020 while many of us were home alone during the pandemic: https://quaranzine.glitch.me/
- I taught myself how to use GarageBand and wrote and recorded a few quarantine inspired cover songs while being home alone during the lockdown in 2020: “iso trap” – A quarantine inspired cover album