"I don't wear Glass Slippers.
I roundhouse-kick Glass Ceilings."
— TeLisa Daughtry
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Interviews ✦ Articles ✦ Podcasts
2023
📰 US Black Engineer: Black leaders powering the metaverse honored at the BEYA Metaquake Symposium (February 2023)
2020
📰 Create & Cultivate 24 Hard-Working Womxn Share The One Productivity Tip That Truly Changed Their Life (October 2020)
📰 Women's Empowerment Principles TeLisa Daughtry - Paving the Way for Women in Technology (August 2020)
📰 Skillcrush How To Tell If A Company Is (ACTUALLY) Supporting Women Of Color (July 2020)
📰 Boomerang Agency Business, Burnout and a Buddhist (July 2020)
📰 Empower Women / UN Women Innovation, Entrepreneurship and the Future: International Women’s Day 2020 - Summary and Research Report (February 2020)
📰 Business Insider 15 stories of burnout from successful female CEOs, founders, and leaders, and their advice for avoiding the same fate (February 2020)
🎥 CTV News Atlantic Live at 5 Breaking glass ceilings with TeLisa Daughtry (February 2020)
🎥 Empower Women / UN Women / Economic Club of Canada Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and the Future (February 2020)
🔊 The Suga Ray Show 1-on-1 with TeLisa Daughtry [Podcast] (January 2020)
2019
🔊 Checkbox Other with Nikki Innocent Flyest Technista with TeLisa Daughtry [Podcast] (October 2019)
🔊 Penji Shades of Success [Podcast] Powering Women & Girls To Become Innovators in Tech (August 2019)
🎥 United Nations TV 1M1B Activate Impact Summit Civil Society Unit briefing (February 2019)
2018
📰 SWAAY These Women Aren’t Just Using Diversity As A Buzzword (May 2018)
📰 EdSurge Words to Never Use If You Want to Build a Diverse EdTech Company (March 2018)
2017
🔊 Fox News Radio Extraordinary [Podcast] (November 2017)
📰 Bustle 8 Women In STEM Who Are Changing The Game (September 2017)
📰 Code Like A Girl Meet TeLisa Daughtry, Founder of FlyTechnista (September 2017)
🎥 Bold TV #BoldBiz: FlyTechnista (August 2017)
📰 Black Enterprise FlyTechnista is Full S.T.E.A.M. Ahead (June 2017)
📰 Mic 1,000 Tech and Science Speakers Who Aren't Men (May 2017)
🎥 Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology: Women Entrepreneurs & Innovation Summit - The B's of Building a Successful Business (May 2017)
🎥 Cheddar TV NYSE Closing Bell / Women in S.T.E.M. (April 2017)
🎥 W.I.N. Forum NY 5 Must Have Digital Skills (April 2017)
🎥 Code Eclectic Beauty, Brains, and Hustle (March 2017)
📰 WeRule TeLisa Daughtry (March 2017)
📰 BOLD Millennial Poverty Doesn’t Always Look Like The Person Asking You For Change (March 2017)
📰 Innov8tiv Innov8tiv's Top 50 Visionary Women In Tech To Watch In 2017 (January 2017)
📰 Huffington Post Women in Tech: STEEAMnista Summit Recap (December 2017)
2016
🎥 Salon TV How to Bridge the Gap between Women and the Tech World (October 2016)
📰 BOLD TV Tech Shouldn’t Be a Boys’ Club: TeLisa Daughtry Talks Women and STEEAM (October 2016)
📰 Fox News This Founder Plans to Stop the Decline of Women in Tech (August 2016)
🎥 Entrepreneur.com Meet TeLisa Daughtry: The Woman Who Plans to Put a Stop to the Decline of Women in Technology (August 2016)
📰 Brooklyn Buttah TeLisa Daughtry, The Connector for Women and Girls in TECH (July 2016)
🎥 January Diaries Meet the Women in Tech Stars of Collision Conference (April 2016)
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Books & Publications
Social Justice
Read my essay "America, The Beautiful Narcissist"
A Collective Breath: Stories of Being Black in America and Visions of Change (2020)
🏆 NextGen Indie Book Awards
Publisher: BMcHAWKS TALKS
Public Speaking
Learn how I launched my speaking career, and how you can too!
Own the Microphone: How 50 of the World's Best Professional Speakers Launched Their Careers (2020)
Publisher: BMcHAWKS TALKS
Women's Empowerment
Publisher: Behind Her Vision
Technology & Business
Learn essential skills to jumpstart your journey in tech, develop your unique leadership voice as an entrepreneur, launch your business idea or product.
Learn, Lead, Launch: A FlyTechnista's Guide to Tech FLY & Hustle FLY (2018 First Edition)
Publisher: TeLisa Daughtry
Women's Empowerment
See how I am empowering women in technology through Leadership in Action.
Paving the Way for Women in Technology (2020)
Publisher: UN Women
Women's Empowerment
Learn practices to advance women in the workplace and entrepreneurship.
Women's Economic Empowerment (2020)
Publisher: UN Women
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Awards & Accolades
2024
Women in Innovation (Advisory Council)
Women.NYC (Network Advisor)
UN Women - Commission on the Status of Women (Delegate)
CUNY: Practicioner's in Residence Corps (Technology Adjunct Professor)
2023
Google Women Techmakers (Ambassador)
Luminary x UBS (Fellow)
BEYA: Champions of the Metaverse Award (Honoree)
2021
WE Empower SDGs Challenge (Finalist)
UN Women UK - Commission on the Status of Women (Delegate)
2020
UN Women - Women's Empowerment Principles Award (Honoree)
COLOR Magazine, All-Inclusive Leadership Award (Honoree)
Udacity Tech Scholar - A.I. in Business, (nanodegree candidate)
Inner City Capital Connections, Fall 2020 (Fellow)
AllRaise Visionary Voices (speaker)
Stanford Graduate School of Business, Rebuild program (participant)
Women's Empowerment Principles (signatory)
Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc. and Black & Latinx Information Science Technology Support, Women in Tech (Honoree)
California State Assembly, Women in S.T.E.A.M. (Honoree)
Cabrillo High School Engineering & Design, Women in STEAM (Honoree)
US Department of State Bureau of Education & Cultural Affairs (speaker)
2019
VC University, Fall 2019 (Fellow)
Goldman Sachs 10,000 Women, Fall 2019 (Fellow)
American Express & Ashoka: Emerging Innovators (Fellow)
SWAAY (founding member)
Bank of America / eCornell, Women Entrepreneurship Program (Fellow)
2018
My Boss Tribe, 50 Most Influential Women Entrepreneurs in NYC (Honoree)
2017
ACT4 Award, Diversity in Tech (Honoree)
The Ariane de Rothschild (Fellow)
eBay Startup Cup (Finalist)
MIT Inclusive Innovation Challenge (participant)
Y-Combinator Startup School (participant)
Tech.co: Startup of the Year (participant)
Social Enablers #SE100 (Fellow)
1,000 Women in Tech Speakers' by Mic.com, Melanie Ehrenkranz
200 Black Women in Tech to Follow on Twitter #200BWT, BlackWomenTech.com
Code Interactive: 2017 Diversity in Tech Awards (Finalist)
Leading Woman Entrepreneur (nominee)
Tech Crunch Disrupt, Pitchoff (Winner)
Nespresso Innovation Challenge (Winner)
UNCF, STEM Scholars (volunteer)
Women@Forbes, (Advisor)
Top 50 Visionary Women in Tech to Watch in 2017, Innov8tiv Mag
2016
The White House: Computer Science for All #CSforAll (participant)
The White House: United State of Women, Changemaker (nominee)
United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (ambassador)
Centre for Social Innovation: Women's Lab (founding member)
Dreamers//Doers (founding member)
Made in NY Media Center by IFP, Creative >> Founder Lab (participant) / Women in Tech (scholarship recipient)
2015
Best for NYC Challenge (participant)
The Founder Institute (participant)
2010
Pepsi Refresh Project (participant)