Episode 10 – Sitting with Pioneering Tech Entrepreneur Avis Yates Rivers

Tune in to hear host Laura Mignott (CEO, experience communications agency DFlash) in conversation with Avis Yates Rivers, a real life ‘Hidden Figure’ and 30+ year entrepreneur. Starting out as a saleswoman for Exxon in the 80s – selling the first information processors and fax machines - Avis evolved into an entrepreneur over the next 32 years and never looked back.
Her key advice: take the time to debate and decide whether to be an entrepreneur. They also cover her amazing initiative #SitWithMe and how to encourage careers in technology for women and people of color. 

Buy Avis’s book: Necessary Inclusion: Embracing the Changing Faces of Technology
 
https://www.amazon.com/Necessary-Inclusion-Embracing-Changing-Technology/dp/1595985174/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1491761185&sr=8-1&keywords=necessary+inclusion

And follow her on Twitter: @SitWithAvis

Credits:

Creator and host: Laura Mignott
Producer: Sandy Smallens for Audiation.fm
Mixer: Matt Noble at The Loft in Bronxville, NY
Additional production: Bang Studios in New York City
Original Theme Music: Probe Rok