Isis Anchalee

onstage during TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2015 at Pier 70 on September 23, 2015 in San Francisco, California.

Isis Anchalee (Also known as Isis Wenger) is a Canadian full-stack engineer employed by OneLogin, and the founder of the #ilooklikeanengineer campaign. Anchalee created the hashtag in order to promote discussion of gender issues in tech after the OneLogin featured her face in an ad campaign.[1] Anchalee is also a member of Women Who Code.

Creation of I Look Like An Engineer

Hashtag

Anchalee created #ilooklikeanengineer when she received derogatory comments about her face being featured in an ad campaign for OneLogin. Anchalee feels that most people are "...well intentioned but genuinely blind to a lot of [things] that those who do not identify as male have to deal with." [2] One year after the launch of #ilooklikeanengineer 250,000 plus people had used the hashtag.[3][4]

Website

Anchalee has created a website, ilooklikeanengineer.com, which she describes as "...a safe platform for us all to continue to share our stories and experiences relating to diversity issues in tech." [2] As of December 2016, the website has not launched, but allows visitors to enter their email to be notified when it does.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Times, Los Angeles. "Think you know what an engineer looks like? #ilooklikeanengineer says think again". latimes.com. Retrieved 2016-11-01.
  2. 1 2 Anchalee, Isis (2015-08-01). "You May Have Seen My Face on BART – The Coffeelicious". Medium. Retrieved 2016-11-01.
  3. ↑ Anchalee, Isis (2016-08-03). "#iLookLikeAnEngineer: One Year Later – Startup Grind". Medium. Retrieved 2016-11-01.
  4. ↑ MacDonald, Fiona. "The best tweets from the #ILookLikeAnEngineer hashtag". ScienceAlert. Retrieved 2016-11-01.
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