CODE: Debugging the Gender Gap

CEDRIC BROWN is the chief of community engagement at The Kapor Center. He brings over 20 years of experience as an educator and funder, working with the Kapor Foundation, SF Foundation, SF Education Fund, Switzer Foundation, SF Cultural Equity Grants, and Level Playing Field Institute, among others. Brown is the co-founder of the College Bound Brotherhood, which aims to serve 5,000 African American young men on the path to a college degree. He has served as a board/committee member of Color of Change.org, Northern California Grantmakers, Funders Committee for Civic Participation, Council on Foundation’s Family Philanthropy Committee, and Bay Area Blacks in Philanthropy. Brown received an ABFE Emerging Leader in Philanthropy Award and was profiled as a San Francisco Chronicle Changemaker. He holds degrees from the University of North Carolina and Stanford University and executive certificates from Georgetown and Rutgers.

DANIELLE FEINBERG is director of photography for lighting at Pixar Animation Studios. She began her career at Pixar in 1997 and has worked on nine of Pixar’s 14 feature films, including A Bug’s Life, Toy Story 2, Monsters, Inc., Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Cars, and Ratatouille and was the director of photography-lighting for the Academy Award®-winning features WALL•E” and Brave. Her first role at Pixar was as lead render technical director on A Bug’s Life at the age of 23. Her love of combining computers and art began when she was eight years old when she first programmed a Logo turtle to create images. This eventually led her to a Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science from Harvard University. Now, in addition to her Pixar work, she enjoys photographing the real world with its ornery, non-virtual light, and works with teenage girls, encouraging them to pursue math and science by demonstrating to them the same beautiful simplicity she found with the programmed art of the Logo turtle.

ROBIN HAUSER REYNOLDS, is the director of CODE: Debugging the Gender Gap and is the director and producer of cause-based documentary films at Finish Line Features, LLC. As both a businesswoman and a longtime professional photographer, Reynolds brings her creative eye and leadership skills to her documentary film projects. She co-directed and produced the documentary feature Running for Jim, which won 14 awards at 20 film festivals. She has spoken about the importance of increased diversity in computer programming and on behalf of women’s rights at the Mobile World Congress, SXSW Interactive Conference, InspireFest, AT&T Foundry FutureCast, and Dell Women Entrepreneur Network.

JULIE ANN HORVATH is a fan of the social web, building things, and making information beautiful. She currently works as the head of design at Clef, a startup based in Oakland, CA, where she pairs her passion for design with programming. Horvath was an early employee at venture-backed startups GitHub, Yammer, and Cherry (acquired by Lyft) and founded tech's first all-woman talk series, Passion Projects, designed to help surface and celebrate the work of incredible women in the tech industry.

Moderator MARCO DELLA CAVA covered the entertainment industry for USA Today’s Los Angeles bureau after starting at the paper’s Virginia headquarters. In 1996 he and a colleague opened the paper's first European bureau in London, an experience whose groundwork was laid by years living abroad as a child—in Italy, Brazil, and France—as well as a stint reporting from Ukraine just as that country gained independence. As a foreign correspondent he traveled to 26 countries over three years, covering everything from the war in Kosovo to the World Cup soccer tournament, from humanitarian disasters in the Nigerian oil delta to player meltdowns at the British Open golf tournament. Since 2000, Della Cava has been based in the San Francisco Bay Area, covering the intersection of technology and culture, which includes his regular series "Change Agents," a spotlight on well-known and up-and-coming entrepreneurs in the tech space.