The U.S State Department organized the  TechWomen program in response to President Barack Obama’s call in his June 2009 speech in Cairo for greater collaboration with Muslim communities around the world. TechWomen is a professional mentorship and exchange program bringing together technical women leaders from the Middle East & North Africa and from leading companies in Silicon Valley. Several mentees and cultural and technical mentors shared technical expertise and fostered international, long-term relationships to create business opportunities for women in their countries.

I was one of the 20 Technical mentors in the first TechWomen program. I spent the month of June 2011 …

I am training to complete a 100 Km Tour of Napa bike ride in August and a 100 mile bike ride in October this year. I am training with team Asha to raise funds for education of underprivileged children in India.

Details of my ride and logistics of fundraising are available here. here.