Robin Hauser

Activist, Change Agent, Filmmaker, Idea generator, Parent, Philanthropist, Photographer, Producer, Social entrepreneur, Writer/Editor

As both a business woman and a longtime professional photographer, Robin brings her creative eye and leadership skills to Cause-based documentary films. Her years in fine art photography give her a keen vision for the artistic design of CODE: Debugging the Gender Gap; her experience in the business world affords her a unique perspective on what it takes to change an industry. Previously, Robin co-directed and produced the documentary feature, Running for Jim, which won 14 awards at 21 film festivals in the U.S. and abroad. Robin received her BA from UC Berkeley and her MBA from Thunderbird School of Global Management. She has spoken about the importance of increased diversity in computer programming on CNN Money's Risk & Reward, CNN Leslie Segall, Bloomberg West's Emily Chang and Bloomberg Radio with Katherine Oliver, BBC International and Triangulation with Leo Laporte. Robin has spoken about the ramifications of the gender gap at the Global World Congress 2015, SXSW Interactive Conference 2015, AT&T Foundry FutureCast and is a keynote speaker at InspireFest 2015 in Dublin, ObjCGN in Cologne, and Dell Women Entrepreneur's Network in Berlin, 2015. As Director of CODE documentary, Robin has been featured in national publications: USA Today, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Fortune, Forbes, Inc.com, Wired, Forbes, Fast Company, The San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Business Times and more codedoc.co/press.

I am passionate about making caused based films; about creatively opening eyes to issues that affect us all. I am passionate about disruption; about challenging status quo and banality.

The gender gap in tech is not just a gender issue. Nor is it just an ethnicity issue. It's an enormous looming economic issue in the United States. According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, by the year 2020 there will be 1,000,000 unfilled computer science related jobs in the USA.

Documentary films, Filmmaking film directing film producing, Photography

Spreading the word that all industries gain from narrowing the gender gap, increasing diversity and broadening perspectives.

Making margaritas and bee keeping.