Introduction

Interview with Susan Nakashima, former two-time Innovate@UCLA Executive Board Chairperson

Interview with Susan Nakashima, former two-time Innovate@UCLA Executive Board Chairperson

Andriana Albert, Strategic Partnerships & Third-Party Relations officer at Avasant and Raffi Simonian Senior Program Manager, Community Partnership Programs at UCLA’s Office of Advanced Research Computing interview Susan Nakashima Principal Manager, IT Compliance at Southern California Edison (SCE) and former two-time Executive Board Chairperson for Innovate@UCLA.

The forty-five-minute-long virtual session features Susan’s personal story of achievements and aspects of her career in IT through the lens of People, Process and Technology.

This session highlights include:

  • A look back at the early days of Innovate@UCLA
  • The need to include members from outside of IT into the Innovate@UCLA program
  • The challenges and benefits of expanding membership
  • Designing an “elevator pitch” for Women in IT
  • If you are interested in learning more about Susan’s research on Psychological Safety Training, click here