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Sara Wachter-Boettcher is a coach, speaker, author, and the CEO of Active Voice, a company dedicated to creating bold leaders and better workplaces in design and tech. She started Active Voice in 2020, after running a UX consultancy for a decade.

Her most recent book, Technically Wrong: Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic Tech (W.W. Norton, 2017), was named one of the best tech books of the year by Wired, and one of the top business books of the year by Fast Company. Sara is also the co-author, with Eric Meyer, of Design for Real Life (A Book Apart, 2016), a book about creating products and interfaces that are more inclusive and compassionate, and the author of Content Everywhere (Rosenfeld Media, 2012), a book about creating flexible, mobile-ready content. 

Sara is also the cohost of Per My Last Email, a podcast about what to do when work gets weird, with her colleague Jen Dionisio.

Sara lives in Philly and speaks about design, tech, gender, and leadership at conferences around the world. Her work has been published in The Washington Post, Slate, The Guardian, Salon, McSweeney’s, and more. Learn more at activevoicehq.com.

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Sara Wachter-Boettcher is a coach, speaker, author, and the CEO of Active Voice, a company dedicated to creating bold leaders and better workplaces in design and tech. She started Active Voice in 2020, after running a UX consultancy for a decade.

Her most recent book, Technically Wrong: Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic Tech, was named one of the best tech books of the year by Wired. She also wrote Design for Real Life (with Eric Meyer) and Content Everywhere, and has been published in The Washington Post, The Guardian, and McSweeney’s. Learn more at activevoicehq.com.

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Sara Wachter-Boettcher is a coach, speaker, author, and the CEO of leadership training company Active Voice. She’s the author of Technically Wrong, Design for Real Life (with Eric Meyer), and Content Everywhere, and has been published in The Washington Post, The Guardian, and McSweeney’s. Learn more at activevoicehq.com.

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Sara Wachter-Boettcher is a coach, speaker, author, and the CEO of Active Voice. Her most recent book is Technically Wrong.