Tessa Kreisel and Teaching Development

Tessa Kriesel is a developer, community advocate, and educator. In this episode we get into our approaches to teaching, why it’s important, and the importance of giving opportunities to underserved areas and groups. We also discuss our “aha” moments – that time where programming suddenly clicked for us.
Show Notes

* Tessa Kriesel
* Pantheon
* Outspoken Women
* Coders of Tomorrow
* Coder Dojo
* CodePen
* W3Schools
* Josh Koenig and Pantheon

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Intro: Hey Everybody and welcome to episode 87 of How I Built It. Today I get to talk to my friend Tessa Kriesel about 2 things I love: Development and teaching. We get into our approaches to teaching, why it’s important, and giving opportunities to underserved areas and groups. We also discuss our “aha” moments – that time where programming suddenly clicked for us. Today’s episode is brought to you by The Events Calendar and Pantheon, both of whom you’ll hear about later. So now, on with the show.
Joe Casabona: Hey, everybody. Welcome to another episode of How I Built It, the podcast that asks, “How did you build that?”
I am very happy to have my good friend Tessa Kriesel on the show today. Tessa, how are you?
Tessa Kriesel: I am fabulous. Thank you for having me.
Joe: Thanks for being on the show. You are a woman of many hats. We were discussing pre-show what we’re going to talk about. You work for Pantheon, and you teach development, and you have a website called Outspoken Women.
We’re going to talk about that middle one, but why don’t you tell everybody who you are and what you do?
Tessa: To summarize what you already said, I work at Pantheon, I’m a developer advocate. The things that I focus on are making sure that people are successful in our platform. Outside of my role at Pantheon, I have a lot of passions when it comes to teaching people to code in general. Specifically women and children and anyone who is in a group that feels like they need to find assets, or it’s more difficult to find those kinds of assets.
Obviously very passionate about diversity and women in tech, which is where Outspoken Women comes along, and I’ve played a huge role in Girl Develop It locally in the Minneapolis chapter. So, lots to know about me.
Joe: Fantastic, and all awesome causes. I know that I’ve gotten just a little bit of flak for not having a very diverse show myself. And part of that is, it’s hard to find diverse guests. Especially programmers who are also business owners, that’s a very narrow market.
Your website Outspoken Women has helped with that and it’s nice to see that there’s a bigger movement to have more voices in the community. Which is what all of this is about, right?
Tessa: Yeah, absolutely.
Joe: If you want to learn more about Pantheon, I’ll say, because we can have a whole show on that– as a matter of fact we did have a whole show on that with the CEO of Pantheon.