Tara Brown
LA Makerspace
Tara Brown is an accomplished tech entrepreneur, educator and opinion writer. She is the Technical Director at UC Irvine and the Co-founder and Executive Director of LA Makerspace, a non-profit community space for makers and tinkerers of all ages to create and collabotrate. She also runs Represent.LA, an open-source map of LA tech startups and DIY Girls, a group for women who want to hack on software and harware projets. She previously worked at Microsoft and regularly blogs about women in technology.