Sue has a decade of experience in the microcomputer industry as a marketing executive and has been running her own business in the Internet industry since 1996. She earned a B.A. in Psychology and Rhetoric from the State University of New York at Binghamton and an MBA from Duke University.

Susan Kim
Program Director
As Program Director of WiM, Susan is responsible for selecting potential speakers and then sweet-talking them into giving a speech at our monthly meetings for free. When she's not twisting some poor speaker's arm, she works as the creative director for PrizeCentral.com. In her off time (all 5 minutes of it each week), she plays tennis, ice skates, runs, and mountainbikes. This is necessary because she loves ordering half the menu at Mel's diner when she goes to lunch with WiM president Sue Levin.

Susan earned her undergraduate degree at Harvard. She swears while there she never once heard anyone say, "Paaahk the cah in Hahvid Yaahd," but did recall someone shouting "Get that chowduh outta my trousahs, you bastid."

Priscilla Hazlewood
Web Director
Priscilla started her design career in print and migrated to the web and hasn't looked back. She loves the dynamism of web publishing and has permanently left the tedium of pre-print behind in favor of an instant upload. She studied graphic design at CCAC in Oakland and has a degree in Multimedia from CSUH.

She has received the Project Cool Sightings Award for a recent project. Her work is featured in Web Hits! Creative sites from around the WWW, a book published by AGOSTO Inc. in Japan. She is responsible for the WiM redesign which is an ongoing work-in-progress.

She is works as a web designer the SF Bay Area. Her hobbies are: creating mixed media constructions, semiotics, and building Tesla Coils.

Mora Chartrand
Membership Director
As WiM Membership Director, Mora is responsible for growing the WiM membership, managing the member database, and keeping members informed on the current happenings and upcoming events. When she is not working on WiM matters, Mora manages marketing communications and the affiliate program for Zoomerang.com, a Marin County Internet company that provides a free, Internet service that enables businesses and individuals to easily conduct professional-grade surveys, and gather and analyze the critical feedback necessary to make important decisions.

Mora joined the high-tech community in the 1980s, and started her marketing career working for companies such as WordStar International, Sybase, and consulting at several other software companies. Earlier career paths included time spent as a California State Assembly constituent liaison, marketer at various electronics companies, and cook at two Sonoma County restaurants.

When Mora doesn’t have her nose buried in the latest high-tech industry publications or Web sites, you’ll find her reading cookbooks, food and wine magazines and planning her next dinner party. In addition, she is an avid (make that obsessed) collector of California wine and student of Japanese saké. Mora hopes to someday combine her love of technology and the Web with a career in the food and beverage industry.

Michelle Estrada
WiM Web Illustrator
Michelle creates the spot illustrations for WiM's website. Her unique style and creative input brightens up our pages. She also contributes her web design expertise and dishes up banner ads on call.

When she has the time, she can be found at movie theatres in San Francisco, watching 2 or more movies in one day. If not, she's usually just hanging out with her buddies, exploring new restaurants, or she goes for good hikes. When her mind is too bogged down and can't seem to juggle, she takes out her sketch book and draws.

Gail Persily
WiM Online Editor
Gail's job is to make sure our website stays current, complete and grammatically correct. She's responsible for our Spotlight column, and you can also find her name on many of the WIM40+ For the Record reports.

Gail is a librarian. which means, she will be glad to tell you, that she has been working with the Internet since way before the Web came on the scene. As Assistant Director for Informatics Education at the UCSF library, she is responsible for programs to educate students, faculty and all other comers in the effective use of information technologies and resources. Over the past 10 years, the Internet has resulted in tremendous changes in the practice of teaching, learning, and research. Librarians have been at the forefront of managing many of those changes, which keeps Gail's job exciting and demanding.

Gail received her Masters in Library & Information Studies at UC Berkeley. She loves to write, expecially when it's about fascinating and inspiring women. She also loves to read, cook and nap on the couch.

Maryl Olsen
WiM Web Designer
Maryl updates our event page each month. Owner and art director of her own company, Olsen Design. Maryl is a graphic designer and artist and now joins us in the web world. She enjoys animation, mysteries, and the ocean and has done award winning digital art. You can view her work at www.marylsworld.com