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FINANCIALLY NAKED SHOW
Discussing finances, particularly debt, has always been a taboo: we are more comfortable getting physically naked with someone than financially naked. With over 1M+ views online, and features in Forbes, Business Insider, and Yahoo, Financially Naked is here to embrace radical financial honesty to help folks overcome debt and establish healthier financial futures. We document a group of Financial Gym financial coaches, who travel the country meeting to help folks overcome debt and chase their financial dreams.
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CHLOE INVEST IN WOMEN TOUR
Over the last year and half #GoBeyond has been touring with Chloe Capital to document their #InvestInWomen tour, where they have seeded over $1.5M in capital across half a dozen ventures in Boston, Binghamton, Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles, and New Orleans. Our next stop: Charlotte to focus on folks who are redefining the future of ed-tech.
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ABOUT US
WHO WE ARE
content THAT FOSTERS INNOVATION AND INCLUSION
#GoBeyond is a media and tech innovation lab dedicated to challenging misconceptions and elevating diverse innovators that fuel exponential breakthroughs. Collectively, our team has over a decade of experience in engineering, industrial design, production and digital content creation. Through a mix of media and technology, we are deprogramming algorithmic bias. As a team, we've worked with some of the top brands, including Deloitte, World Science Festival, and Palantir, among others. Our work has been featured in over 100 publications, including Forbes, Scientific American, and The Economist.
We look forward to chatting with you about how we can amplify your organizations' professional programs' achievements and help you champion the next round of inclusive, innovative breakthroughs.
WHY #GOBEYOND?
FOunded by DIVERSE INNOVATORS, celebrating DIVERSE INNOVATORS
Women lead 12% of green-lit Hollywood media properties, comprise only 4.6% of Fortune 500 CEOs, and receive less than 2.7% of venture capital. #GoBeyond is a team of engineers on a mission to champion innovations that propel us beyond previous boundaries of human knowledge and experiences. We give voice and vision to those not always heard or seen within the present story engineering paradigms. A celebration of curiosity, community, and perseverance, #GoBeyond not only debunks current myths based on this cutting-edge research but also explores the fascinating future created through diverse ingenuity. Our work is at the intersection of media, artificial intelligence, and blockchain and redefining the future of data science and data storytelling.
OUR TEAM
JENNIFER HALWEIL
CHIEF STORY ENGINEER / FOUNDER
Jenn Halweil studied electrical engineering as one of three women in a two hundred person circuits class, and wondered where all the women went. She continued to be confused by this trend as the only female consultant for various tech startups, including TransLoc, just awarded one of Fast Company’s most innovative companies, and the Department of Energy’s Freedom Car division, their alternative fuel vehicle research center.
A decade ago, she started Legacy Impacts, an educational non-profit to bolster diversity in the sciences, which hosted events drawing audiences of more than 50,000 attendees. Her work has been featured in Mic, Buzzfeed, ABC11, mtvU, and News14 to name a few, and footage she has filmed has appeared in Forbes, Bloomberg, and Huffington Post. Through educational events and content, her work has reached tens of thousands. #GoBeyond enables her to exponentially amplify this audience. Jenn leads #GoBeyond.
JENNIFER TATE
CHIEF DESIGN OFFICER
Jennifer Tate is a multi-faceted designer with a diverse range of experience spanning consumer products, graphics, and habitable spaces. A selection of her high profile endeavors over the past several years include a brand revitalization for Alaska Airlines, trend forecasting for Hilton Worldwide, and serving on the LG Electronics “Design America” creative team. Her work has been awarded Adobe Muse Site of the Year and Site of the Day. She is currently a guest lecturer at Pratt, where she received her Masters of Industrial Design.
Tate believes design is about solving problems with intent. As head of her own design studio, she especially loves championing products that are designed for women by women, and seeks to empower and enable more women looking to enter STEM related fields. She is proud of the work she has accomplished, particularly for women-led ventures, and the early mockups she has created for #GoBeyond. Tate guides #GoBeyond’s creative direction and design.
ONUR BATTAL
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Onur Battal is a cinematographer and photographer with over a decade of experience working with leading international companies and news organizations including: CNN, Bloomberg, Macy's and Coach. His work has screened on multiple continents and received millions of digital views. Originally, a fashion and travel photographer, Onur now enjoys creating a beautiful aesthetic for our featured #GoBeyond scientists, technologists, mathematicians, and engineers. Some of his favorites have included NASA Hubble Fellow Emily Levesque, White House Champion of Change Avis River Yates, and NASDAQ’s CEO Adena Friedman. Originally from Turkey, Onur currently resides in NYC with his drone kit and cat Puma.
CAROLINE MARIKO STUCKY
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Caroline Mariko Stucky is an award winning Swiss-Japanese cinematographer with a fierce passion for American culture. For Caroline, film, the world of the image, is the ultimate language that trumps the kaleidoscope of spoken languages of her childhood. In 2018, Stucky shot seven music videos for Dave Keuning, guitarist of The Killers, for his debut solo album Prismism. Since 2015, Stucky has been documenting soprano Ariadne Greif ’s staged musical commissioning project called Dreams & Nightmares for a music documentary, Only a Dream, exploring the trials and serendipities of the creative process. Her most notable work has been on The Perfect Bunny (2014), written and directed by multiple Goya Award winner Jorge Laplace and Homage to Switzerland (2015), an adaptation from Ernest Hemingway's short story, directed by Pierric Tenthorey. Stucky has been a member of the International Collective of Female Cinematographers since 2017.
SKYLAR WALTERS
RESEARCH & STORY ENGINEER
Skylar is passionate about making science more accessible, inclusive, and diverse. Skylar is the lead research and story engineer at #GoBeyond, where she has created content for some of the world's top sci-tech publications including Interesting Engineering and LiveScience. A graduate of social entrepreneurship camps at Rutgers, Harvey Mudd, and the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth, Skylar enjoys rock climbing and travel in her spare time. Skylar will be attending Brown University in the fall where she plans to study Applied Mathematics and Science, Technology, and Society.
LIOR COLE
AI + BLOCKCHAIN ENGINEER
Lior co-created AI that utilizes GPT-3 technology to generate personalized advice for users, and is publishing a children's book "My Computer is Human...I Think" which sheds light on the future of digital consciousness. She is generating the first ever "digital model" NFT as a second-time fashion designer, which will be accessible on the runway via QR code technology. Lior is passionate about pro-social objective applications of technology and democratizing the field of computer science, including equitable and inclusive AI applications and dismantling computer science bias and stereotypes. In her spare time, Lior travels globally as a model represented by IMG, and is studying Information Science at Cornell University.
OUR STORY
#GoBeyond started as an Instagram account documenting a different woman in STEM everyday but it has quickly grown into so much more. In January, we hosted a #GoBeyond Hidden Figures panel at Cooper Union where we highlighted real life hidden figures, Avis Yates Rivers, who is CEO and president of Technology Concepts Group International, Dr. Emily Levesque, an astronomer at the University of Washington who studies stars and formerly was a Hubble Telescope postdoctoral fellow; Charlie Oliver, a media expert who recently launched Tech2025 to educate the public on the next wave of disruptive, emerging technologies; and Tamara Robertson, and a chemical and biomolecular engineer who hosts Skeptoid Media’s “The Feeding Tube” and was a finalist on the Science Channel’s “Mythbusters: The Search."
The event sold out with over 350 attendees.
“How can we expect to create the best technology when we fail to engage the majority of users, particularly women and people of color, in the development process? This is how information bubbles form, and as we’ve seen from history, bubbles eventually burst. Changing the face of technology is no longer something we can afford to ignore,” says Ms. Rivers, who is a White House Champion of Change and author of Necessary Inclusion: Embracing the Changing Faces of Technology.
After a 45-minute discussion, the panelists met students at an informal gathering. Prof. George Delagrammatikas, associate professor of mechanical engineering and STEM Outreach Program director, who brought the event to The Cooper Union, said, “What I think is particularly powerful about 'Hidden Figures' is that it tells a little known story about how women of color have contributed to science and technology. That’s important because role models are critical for bringing more diversity to the field.”
So what's next? We've begun shooting video portraits of women in STEM to build #GoBeyond into a multimedia docuseries. We ask some of society's most pressing scientific questions and we find women who are Nancy Drewing their way to answers. And we’re working on a TV show Beyond the Build where diverse engineers teach youth DIY science hacks for big world problems like urban heating, water pollution, and plastic waste management. Know a woman we should feature? Shoot us a message via the contact form. Want to get involved? Shoot us a message via the contact form. You've discovered nuclear fusion!? Shoot us a message via the contact form. And if you know or are part of a company that is looking for ways to elevate your diversity and inclusion efforts and women in STEM leaders…. you got it…Shoot us a message via the contact form below ;-)
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