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"Women Of Silicon Valley" Is An Even Cooler "Humans Of New York"

One Stanford student’s intiative to spotlight inspiring women in tech.

Lea Coligado, a computer science student at Stanford, got the idea to start her website Women of Silicon Valley after noticing that the public image of the tech world was "invariably male."

"Over the past couple years, I've come into contact with some awesome women in tech through Stanford or work, and I kept thinking to myself, why have I never heard of them before?" Coligado tells BuzzFeed.

In the same vein as sites like Humans of New York, Women of Silicon Valley posts photos of remarkable people alongside brief interviews with them on its Facebook page.

Coligado says most of the featured women (among whom are Tracy Chou from Pinterest and Sara Mauskopf of Postmates) are sent to her as nominations by friends or followers.

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