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Ed Finkler
Open Sourcing Mental Illness
In the spirit of open source, I’d like to shine a spotlight on depression. Not because it’s easy, but because it’s important. Mental illness affects many of us, but the stigma attached to it dissuades most people from talking about it openly. That’s not how we make progress. With this talk, I want to do my part. Find out more >
Ed Finkler
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Greg Baugues
Devs and Depression
We need to bring depression out into the sunlight and let developers' know that it’s okay to talk about it. We need to make mental illness as acceptable as diabetes or cancer. We need depressed developers to know that they are not lazy or weak, but are suffering from a treatable medical condition. Find out more >
Greg Baugues
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John Dalton
Understanding despair
Our community is getting better at talking about depression, but we might have a disadvantage when it comes to understanding it. It's not a puzzle to be solved, and not always something you can think your way out of. I want to show you how I came to understand what it means to have clinical depression, and the single most important thing we can do about it. Find out more >
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Julia Nguyen
Talking About It
I want to share my journey with accepting and dealing with obsessive-compulsive disorder, anxiety, and depression and how it has shaped my self-esteem and identity as a student, software engineer, and woman. We should not be suffering in silence and hiding who we are in order to succeed. There needs to be more support groups and mentorships in the classroom and in the workplace for people to open up, be vulnerable, and discover mental health resources.
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Julia Nguyen
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Justine Arreche
Eating Disorders & Emotional Debt
Eating disorders affect over 70 million individuals worldwide. Despite the increasing number of people that suffer from ED, it is a seemingly shameful disease that many people don’t want to talk about. Eating disorders are a disease the breaks your relationships with everyone around you. A disease that often goes unnoticed by many and can end up being fatal.
Justine Arreche is a recovering bulimic and advocate for opening up the discussion about eating disorders and those affected in the tech industry. Understanding the struggles, signs and symptoms of an eating disorder could allow you to have the tools to help a fellow human who is suffering. Perhaps even save their life. Find out more >
Justine Arreche
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Jason Charnes
Developer, Mental Health Advocate
Jason is a husband, soon-to-be dad, and a developer at LensRentals.com. Outside of his passion for web development, Jason is passionate about mental health, loyalty programs, the city of Memphis, and whiskey. Find out more >
Jason Charnes
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Mary Thengvall
Community Builder, Burnout Advocate
Mary Thengvall is a connector of people at heart, both personally and professionally. She loves digging into the strategy of how to build and foster communities, and has been working with various developer communities for over 7 years. She's now building out the community strategy for SparkPost, an API-driven email delivery service. Find out more >
Mary Thengvall
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Amy Newell
Bipolar Management
Amy Newell is Director of Engineering at PatientsLikeMe, and believes her bipolar disorder is an asset to her management. She feels proud to work for a company that supports and celebrates neurodiversity. She thinks that being open and supportive about mental health creates a better working environment for everyone, increases productivity, and leads to happier engineers. She is committed to showing other tech companies and tech managers how to better support all their employees around mental health, and committed to helping other tech workers with mental health issues navigate successful career paths and get the help they need. She has spoken openly about her mental illness on NPR and can be found on YouTube talking about her bipolar disorder.
She is also a poet.Find out more >
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Aaron Aldrich
ADHD and Self Awareness
Aaron is passionate about people. As an engineer, he is also passionate about how people fit together and how we operate and, sometimes more fascinatingly, how we disfunction and how to continue operations when we do. Aaron learned he may have ADHD only after adulthood and it's been like finding that offending bug that's been causing problems for years. There is so much misinformation and stigma around mental health. In the spirit of open source, he wants his contributions to help build the community by correcting the myths and sharing the lessons learned from having his own ADHD perspective when approaching technology and people.
Aaron has a family, and enjoys playing the bass, board gaming, video gaming, really anything you can do with other people. He also organizes the DevOps CT meetup and have organized the DevOpsDays Hartford conference.Find out more >
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We want to start a conversation to help those working in the tech industry affected by mental health issues.
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We believe in Prompt's mission to help tech recognise, respect and address mental health challenges. We all benefit from an informed, supportive tech industry, and GitHub is proud to be working with Prompt to achieve that.