Embracing her inner nerd, Adria moved moved to San Francisco to pursue her passion for technology. Focused on education, advocacy and digital equality in tech, Adria uses her ability in drawing parallels between technology and real life to create change. Adria has worked technical, consulting and training roles for SMB's, startups and Fortune 500 companies including American Express, Apple, CDW, Dell, John Deere, MVNA, Equinox, Samsung, Zendesk and Geeksquad. She has been a speaker at SXSW, O'Reilly Web 2.0, The Lean Startup Conference, TEDX Bay Area Women, BlogHer and has been interviewed on technology, diversity and business topics for numerous media outlets including NPR, The Rachel Maddow show, Inc.com and ComputerWorld.