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Let's Put Up An #ILookLikeAnEngineer Billboard

Help us show that there's more than one way to look like an engineer.

Let's Put Up An #ILookLikeAnEngineer Billboard

Help us show that there's more than one way to look like an engineer.

3 Campaigns |

San Francisco, United States

$47,285 USD by 381 backers

$46,633 USD by 345 backers on Sep 5, 2015

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Note 11/24/2015: All extra perks are on sale on this page and will support free tech workshops (starting in the Tenderloin in December).

Note 9/22/2015: Limited t-shirt and sock sizes and colors left!

Support awareness, normalization, and inspiration around non-stereotypical engineers!

#ILookLikeAnEngineer Backstory

Engineer Isis Wenger saw a lot of reactions to an ad her company (OneLogin) put up in San Francisco featuring an image of her. She wrote about these reactions in her Medium post, “You May Have Seen My Face On Bart.” As a result, she started the #ILookLikeAnEngineer Twitter hashtag that saw participation from thousands of engineers of all shapes, sizes, colors, genders, ages, and backgrounds.

The Goal of This Campaign

Together, we’d like to put up at least one billboard in San Francisco showing, celebrating, supporting, and encouraging the diversity that was reflected in #ILookLikeAnEngineer posts. This campaign will fund that billboard.

Perks

SPECIAL OFFER (NEW ON SEPTEMBER 4TH, WILL CONTINUE AFTER END OF CAMPAIGN): Name.com (one of our sponsors) is offering .engineer domains at www.getyour.engineer. Check it out!

CLOSED: If you contribute $10, you'll get a thank-you email.

CLOSED: If you contribute $20, you’ll get an #ILookLikeAnEngineer sticker.

CLOSED: If you contribute $25, you'll get blue #ILookLikeAnEngineer ankle socks.

CLOSED: If you contribute $35, you’ll get a blue or black #ILookLikeAnEngineer t-shirt (see logos below).

CLOSED: If you contribute $50, you’ll get a t-shirt and socks.

CLOSED: If you contribute $100, you’ll get a PDF of an #ILookLikeAnEngineer poster that you can print and put up in your neighborhood or office.

CLOSED: If you contribute $500, we’ll make a customized #ILookLikeAnEngineer poster for you and/or your friends who are members of underrepresented groups in tech and send it to you as a PDF.

CLOSED: If you contribute $3,000, we'll feature your company's small logo on our ads.

CLOSED: If you contribute $5000, Isis will speak at your Bay Area company/for your Bay Area group. OR (NEW on August 12th!) we'll feature a medium company logo on our ads.

CLOSED: If you contribute $10,000, we'll feature a medium logo as well as the face of an engineer from your company on our ads.

Event

We had a sold-out event on August 13th in San Francisco. Pictures:

Articles about the event can be found at TechCrunch and The Daily Dot, and a write-up with videos and "now what?" resources can be found here: https://medium.com/@michelleglauser/the-ilooklikeanengineer-community-gathering-7720f946eee2

Other Ways to Support #ILookLikeAnEngineer

Share this campaign with your friends! (You can use the share tools on this page, or here's the link for your convenience: http://igg.me/at/i-look-like-an-engineer.)
Ask your company to be a corporate sponsor (they can get their logo on our ads).
Do news stories on the campaign—we're open to answering questions.
Be supportive of engineers you know that are members of underrepresented groups. That means listening and giving them fair chances, equal pay, and perhaps mentoring (if they so desire).
Volunteer your time and money to help bring more members of underrepresented groups into engineering.

What If We Surpass Our Goal?

If we surpass our billboard goal of $35,000, we’ll be able to have more ads so that we can extend our reach in normalizing underrepresented groups in engineering and inspiring people who may not have thought of becoming engineers to do so. If we significantly surpass that, we’d like to see if we can help with funding organizations that teach programming to underrepresented groups.

Why Flexible Funding?

We chose to use flexible funding in this campaign so that people could have the option of paying with credit cards. In the case we don't reach our billboard goal of $35,000, the money will go towards buying smaller ads.