Julia Silva

Activist, Consultant, Event planner, Life mentor, Project manager, Social entrepreneur, World traveler

Julia Silva is a Diversity Programs Manager at Google, managing YouTube's externally facing diversity and equity focused industry programs and strategies. She is responsible for developing unique external outreach and engagement opportunities for people from traditionally underrepresented groups in tech to connect with Google and YouTube in meaningful ways. She is also the Bay Area lead for #IamRemarkable, a Google developed initiative that focuses on empowering women and underrepresented groups to speak more openly about their accomplishments in the workplace and beyond, while challenging gender modesty norms. She is responsible for driving the internal and external scaling efforts of the program in the region. Through her work on this initiative, she has presented #IamRemarkable at Grace Hopper 2018, Google Cloud Next'18 and '19 conference, and was recently featured on Deloitte's User Friendly podcast discussing inclusive workplaces. She has a degree in Communications from the University of Pennsylvania and is passionate about mentorship, female empowerment, and diversifying tech. Julia is also the first person in her family born in the US, the daughter of a Brazilian father and Portuguese mother, a title that has shaped her lived experiences and passion for creating inclusive communities. She loves to travel and immerse herself in different cultures, learning from others through authentic connections.

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- Never let anyone dim your light. - Challenging the perception around what it means to self-promote, specifically as it relates to women and gender modesty norms, and how this is a necessary skill to flex in order to take control of your narrative and how you are perceived by others. - The importance of community and authentic connection.

Community Engagements, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, Employment Branding, Event planning, Public Speaking, Strategic thinking, Thought Leadership

In 2016, I attended a workshop called #IamRemarkable, which focuses on empowering women and underrepresented groups to speak more openly about their accomplishments in the workplace and beyond, thereby breaking gender modesty norms and glass ceilings. One of the follow up exercises in the workshop was to write a stretch goal, a 10X goal we wanted to achieve. I wrote down "do something at TED before 30". No specifics, I just knew I had to make my way to TED somehow. After joining the #IamRemarkable team as a 20% project, leading over 20 workshops in 2 years, and working to scale this initiative in the Bay Area, I finally reached that stretch goal and now have the honor of facilitating the #IamRemarkable workshop at this year's TED conference!

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