Who We Are: Alexandra Krasne

Development and Industry Partner Manager

Alexandra Krasne Professional Experience
With more than a decade of professional writing and editing experience, her career began in earnest as a child correcting family members’ grammar. Prior to joining the Anita Borg Institute, she was as an Associate Editor at PC World magazine and a Managing Editor of TechSoup, one of the oldest and largest nonprofit technology assistance agencies in the world.

A self-proclaimed geek, Alexandra has written articles on a variety of geeky topics, including: Linux, Web 2.0, motherboards, graphics cards, and citizen journalism.

With her journalism background and development experience, she looks forward to strengthening existing ABI partnerships, creating new ones, and thinking up new Web content to support the Institute’s mission.

Outside the Office
When not pecking away at a keyboard, Alexandra can be found doing any of the following: teaching yoga, cooking, meditating, hiking, camping, traveling (though not nearly enough), making jewelry, searching for sea glass, playing cribbage, reading, volunteering, exploring, and helping wayward animals find their homes.

Officers

Staff

Our Founder

Board of Trustees

  • William Wulf, Ph.D., Former President, National Academy of Engineering, Board Chair
  • Bill Unger, Partner Emeritus, Mayfield Fund - Vice-Chair
  • Margaret Ashida, Director, Diversity and Workforce Programs - IBM Software Group
  • James Beck, CPA & CMA, Managing Director & CFO, Mayfield Fund - Treasurer & Vice President
  • Francine Berman, Professor, Dept of Computer Science and Engineering, UC San Diego and Fellow, ACM
  • Debi Coleman, Managing Partner, SmartForest Ventures
  • Alan Eustace, Senior Vice President, Research and Systems Engineering, Google
  • Penny Herscher, President & CEO, firstRain
  • Kathy Hill, Senior VP Ethernet and Wireless Systems Technology Group, Cisco Systems Inc.
  • Wayne Johnson, Vice President, University Relations, Hewlett-Packard
  • Maria Klawe, President, Harvey Mudd College
  • Richard Rashid, Senior VP and VP Research, Microsoft
  • Justin Rattner, Senior Fellow & CTO, Intel
  • Cheryl Shavers, Former Undersecretary of Technology, Clinton Administration, & CEO of Global Smarts, Inc.
  • Telle Whitney, President & CEO, Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology
  • Linda Bernardi, Emeritus (Term: 1996 -2006)
  • Greg Papadopoulos, Emeritus (Term: 1996 -2006)

Individual and Organizations

Board of Advisors