Emily Witko
People, Culture, And DEIB at Alternate Future
Sacramento, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEmily Witko is a People, Culture, and DEIB leader with three years in her current role at Hugging Face and a decade-long track record building inclusive teams and scalable customer and learning experiences across startups and education. She has led diversity hiring, customer success, and engagement programs at organizations like General Assembly, Industrious, and Zeta, combining hands-on coaching with process design to improve retention and performance. Emily also serves as Secretary on the board of Alternate Future, demonstrating governance experience alongside operational leadership. Known for translating classroom and frontline feedback into measurable people strategies, she pairs empathy-driven management with a data-informed approach to DEIB and employee development. Based in Sacramento, she brings a nonprofit-to-tech perspective that often surfaces practical, community-centered solutions not obvious from org charts alone.
3 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
General AssemblyMaster’s Degree, Master’s Degree at Saint Louis UniversityBachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Arts at The College of New JerseyWest Morris CentralProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (1)
huggingface/blog
Nov 2022 - Oct 2023
Public repo for HF blog posts
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 issue in 10 months
public-repopostsblog-posts
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