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Rusty D. Pickens is the Vice President for Innovation and Technology for oSTEM and the Founder of 580 Strategies. He is the former Senior Advisor for Digital Platforms at the U.S. Department of State, and former Acting Director for New Media Technologies at the White House, where he led teams who operated cloud platforms for the Obama Administration to increase public engagement, improve user experience, enhance staff productivity, and heighten security posture.

Sindhu Sreedhar is an engineer at Toyota R&D in Michigan, working on process engineering for seats and seat parts. She serves as the vice-chair of Toyota's LGBTQ+ employee resource group and coordinates the sponsorship of Ann Arbor Pride. Sindhu holds a BSE in Chemical Engineering from the University of Michigan, where she lead the University of Michigan oSTEM chapter. In her free time, Sindhu is training to become a yoga teacher and hopes to specialize in yoga for QTPOC and decolonizing yoga.

Amy currently leads digital initiatives to build solutions for Bank of America's Small Business customers and Co-Chairs the LGBT+ Pride Employee Network for Northern California. She holds a B.A in Media Studies, Political Economy, and Sociology and a B.S. in Environmental Economics and Policy from the University of California, Berkeley and an M.S. in Integrated Marketing Communications from Northwestern University, Medill. When she’s free, Amy enjoys going on adventures with her two dogs, discovering new restaurants, and watching Netflix’s original content.

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