Episode 92 - Microsoft Cloud's Chloe Condon's Broadway Debut

Podcaster, streamer, dreamer, meme-er Chloe is a Bay Area based Cloud Advocate for Microsoft. Previously, she worked at Sentry.io where she created the award winning Sentry Scouts program (a camp themed meet-up ft. patches, s’mores, giant squirrel costumes, and hot chocolate), and was featured in the Grace Hopper Conference 2018 gallery featuring 15 influential women in STEM by AnitaB.org. Her projects and work with Azure have ranged from fake boyfriend alerts to Mario Kart 'astrology', and have been featured in VICE, The New York Times, as well as SmashMouth's Twitter account. Chloe holds a BA in Drama from San Francisco State University and is a graduate of Hackbright Academy. She prides herself on being a non-traditional background engineer, and is likely one of the only engineers who has played an ogre, crayon, and the back-end of a cow on a professional stage. She hopes to bring more artists into tech, and more engineers into the arts.

In this episode Chloe and i talk her Journey, Spite Driven Theater, Plays, The backstory behind her famous picture and Clippy!?? Microsoft's Incredible Cloud Advocate Chloe Condon starts now!

Timeline Topics
00:00 - Opener/Sponsors
00:14 - Welcome Chloe Condon
00:59 - Chloe's Journey (Plays and Acting)
08:00 - Advocacy as Performance Art
12:16 - Yolo and Spite Driven Theater
16:55 - Props to Microsoft and Boot Camps
23:00 - Office Manager to Advocate and Engineering
35:39 - Insecurity as an Actor.
42:16 - What It’s Like to Be a Woman at a Tech Conference - The Story
51:29 - Being Brave...
57:57 - Advocacy at Microsoft
01:04:44 - Clippy
01:09:35 - Twitter Questions
01:21:48 - What work is Chloe most proud of?

Episode Links
https://linktr.ee/ChloeCondon
https://shift.newco.co/2017/07/25/what-its-like-to-be-a-woman-at-a-tech-conference/
https://mashable.com/article/chloe-condon-tee-medlin-twitter-harassment-tech
https://medium.com/newco/what-its-like-to-be-a-woman-on-the-internet-55f7e6d5044c
https://twitter.com/Microsoft/status/1415370520888061955?s=20

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