Deanna Kosaraju’s role at the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology (ABI) is to direct and manage the program team. Programs are at the core of how ABI meets its mission. She has been especially involved in the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing. 1400 women technologists in a room is one of the most inspiring, invigorating, and thrilling moments you can have. This is a very supportive community - she loves her job!

She arrived at ABI in an unconventional way. After 12 years in the software industry, she decided to go back to school, graduating from University of California, Berkeley with a degree on Gender and Women’s Studies. She has always been interested in women’s issues, experienced some of those issues during her career, and now feels she has the tools (both academic and technological) for creating a space for dialog about what it means to be a woman in the 21st century.