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    <h1><span class="main-headline">DCFT Powerful Women Awards</span></h1>
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    <p class="main-intro">The DCFemTech Awards will recognize Power Women Programmers & Designers based in the Washington, DC region. We'll congratulate women who are working in the trenches of tech & design to help their company or organization achieve success, sometimes entirely behind the scenes.</p>
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      <h1><span class="main-headline">2015 Winners</span></h1>
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            <td>Alisha Ramos, Front-End Designer, Vox Media</td>
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            <td>Allison Carnwath, Senior Front-End Developer, Siteworx</td>
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            <td>Allison McMillan, Engineer, General Assembly</td>
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            <td>Ally Palanzi, Front-End Engineer, Vox Media</td>
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            <td>Betsy Haibel, Senior Developer, Optoro</td>
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            <td>Brenda Egeland, Director of Technology, All'asta</td>
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            <td>Carrie Xianyu, Senior .Net Developer, Creative Information Technology</td>
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            <td>Dolores Farley, Senior Software Engineer, AOL</td>
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            <td>Emily Williamson, Software Engineer, The Motley Fool</td>
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            <td>Jacqueline Kazil, Innovation Specialist, 18F</td>
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            <td>Jess Garson, Organizing Data Specialist, National Education Association</td>
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            <td>Joanne Garlow, Lead Programmer, NPR</td>
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            <td>Judy Jow, Software Engineer, Social Tables</td>
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            <td>Kaitlin Devine, Director of Engineering, 18F</td>
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            <td>Leah Bannon, Product Manager, 18F</td>
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            <td>Lisa Chung, Senior Developer, The Motley Fool</td>
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            <td>Lisa Nohealani Morton, Software Team Lead, NGP VAN</td>
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            <td>Marakie Getachew, Lead Developer, AFL-CIO</td>
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            <td>Megan Zlock, Front-End Developer, Viget</td>
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            <td>Molly Pickral, Lead Software Developer, Interfolio</td>
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            <td>Pamela Vong, Tech Wizard, InfernoRed Technology</td>
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            <td>Rebecca Bilbro, Data Scientist, Department of Labor, OSHA</td>
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            <td>Rebecca Goodman-Sudik, IT Specialist, Smithsonian Libraries</td>
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            <td>Samantha Quiñones, Principal Software Engineer, AOL</td>
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            <td>Savani Tatake, Technical Director, Siteworx</td>
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            <td>Selina Musuta, Jr. Front End Developer, Democratic National Committee</td>
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            <td>Shannon Turner, Founder, Hear Me Code</td>
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            <td>Sonia Hinson, Program Assistant, Syrian American Medical Society</td>
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            <td>Stephanie Nguyen, Cofounder, Landmark</td>
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            <td>Xiaoyan Yin, Principal Software Engineer, AOL</td>
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      <h1><span class="main-headline">Press</span></h1>
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        <li><a href="http://dcinno.streetwise.co/2015/04/21/dc-tech-dcfemtech-inaugural-event-female-coders-programmers/">DCInno: Here Are 30 Of The Region's Most Powerful Female Engineers & Programmers</a></li>
        <li><a href="http://technical.ly/dc/2015/04/22/dcfemtech-30-powerful-women-programmers/">Technically DC: Here are DC’s 30 ‘Powerful Women Programmers’</a></li>
        <li><a href="http://www.nextgov.com/cio-briefing/wired-workplace/2015/04/18f-employees-win-big-dc-femtech-awards/111418/">Nextgov: Trio of DC's Top Female Coders Hail from Federal Innovation Shop</a></li>
        <li><a href="http://tech.co/dcfemtech-recognizes-top-30-women-programmers-2015-04">TechCo: DCFemTech Recognizes Top 30 Women Programmers</a>
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      <h1><span class="main-headline">Nomination Process</span></h1>
      <p>DCFemTech opened the call for nominations for outstanding women programmers/engineers and designers based in the DC region on February 24, 2016 and received 190 submissions. The awards were expanded to include a design category for 2016 as a result of the overwhelming response in 2015.</p>

      <p>Nominations were down selected by a committee made up of twelve women programmers, engineers, designers and executives for each category.</p>

      <p>This year’s programmer recipients were chosen based on: Impact on organization (helped company/non-profit grow & achieve goals); Complexity of issues addressed with code (building a webpage vs. a complex system); Impact on community (contributed to broader tech/women in tech community or open source contributions).</p>

      <p>The design recipients were selected based on similar criteria: Impact on organization (helped company/non-profit grow & achieve goals); Complexity of issues addressed with design (designing a platform that provides a great user experience vs. one page website); and Impact on community (contributed to broader tech/women in tech community or open source contributions).</p>
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