Meet The Team
Bridgette Wallace is an out-of-the-box thinker who pushes hard for equity and inclusion for those that are undervalued and overlooked. Her goal to create additional pipelines that enhance Boston's innovation mix by focusing on women, housing, technology, and entrepreneurship. As an urban planner and founder of Dudley Visions SkyLab and G|Code, she has worked with institutions, coalitions, community residents, and city officials to develop economic networks and programs. Bridgette is particularly interested in rebuilding the ways Roxbury and other neighborhood economies emerge by delivering specialized, efficient, and innovative plans that fuel long-term economic growth for Black, Brown and immigrant residents.
Prior to SkyLab and G|Code, Wallace worked as a Program Manager for the Boston Public Health Commission and the Department of Public Health. She received her Master’s in Urban Planning with a concentration in Economic Development from Tufts University. She is the proud mother to her daughter who recently graduated from Northeastern’s D’Amore Kim School of Business and now works in the tech sector. Wallace is also a Roxbury resident and serves on the board of the Roxbury Neighborhood Council and on the Project Review Committee of Plan Dudley.
Rizel
Bobb-Semple
After interning as a Help Desk Technician at HubSpot through Hack Diversity, Rizel gained a new interest in software development. As a result, she attended Resilient Coders, a non-profit coding bootcamp for minorities. Today, she works as a Software Developer at Hi Marley, and she will obtain a degree in Computer Science from Boston University in 2020. She admits that navigating the world of tech as a young, black woman with limited resources can feel lonely, terrifying, and discouraging. In attempt to break those barriers, Rizel is dedicated to overseeing curriculum development, recruitment, and retention at GCode House.
Director of Curriculum and Engagement
Bailey is an Arab American technologist and activist dedicated to using tech to create sustainable, place-based social impact. In addition to serving as the Director of Strategic Partnerships at G{Code} she is also pursuing a Masters in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School in Social and Urban Policy. Bailey graduated from Tufts University where she studied Community Health and Clinical Psychology before pivoting into tech as a software engineering fellow at Horizons. Since then, Bailey has led efforts on tech, operations, and product teams at multiple tech startups.
Bailey
Siber
Director of Strategic Partnerships
Bridgette Wallace
Founder and Executive Director
Lindsay Nuon began her career in STEM in the US military 15 years ago. Since then, Nuon has worked in the US Intelligence Community with government agencies including NCIS, the FBI, and HHS, as well as Fortune 500 companies. Nuon has a long track record of advising startups and speaks on topics including cyber security, data privacy, governance, risk, and compliance, and diversity, equity and inclusion.
Nuon is a proud member of the International Association of Privacy Professionals, is a Certified Ethical Hacker and an Integrated Risk Management strategist. Her passion for philanthropy and social impact has lead her to serve internationally across the U.S., Europe, and the South East Asia-Pacific region. To date her work has been covered in Al Jazeera, CNBC, and quoted in Buzzfeed. Most recently she served as a judge for the inaugural One World Award, presented at the Consensys Blockchain for Social Impact Conference at the United States Institute of Peace in Washington, DC.
Nuon is the Founder and CEO of EmpirEqual and Women of Color in Blockchain, Inc (WCB). She also serves as an Adjunct Professor at the University of New Hampshire School of Law.