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Tech Moves: Washington STEM names new CEO; Conversica and Iterable hire marketing vets

GeekWire

Washington STEM announced Milton Lang as the education nonprofit’s new CEO. Washington STEM is a nonprofit organization focused on statewide education and social change. Quantz joined the telecommunications giant in 2014 and has been a sales leader in its Chicago, Oregon and Southwest Washington regions. Milton Lang.

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US says internet services are exempt from Russian sanctions

The Verge

The US Department of the Treasury is exempting telecommunications services from ongoing sanctions against Russia. Access Now and other nonprofits have pushed the US government to avoid disrupting internet access as part of larger sanctions against Russia over its February invasion of Ukraine. Illustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge.

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Why many rural communities are still in the ‘digital dark’ — and how Washington state is trying to help

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State agencies have responded to these calls in part by reforming a controversial process that disqualified grant applications from public utilities based on objections from large telecommunications companies like Comcast and CenturyLink. Visit crosscut.com/donate to support nonprofit, freely distributed, local journalism.

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Starbucks CEO Kevin Johnson to retire; Howard Schultz returns as interim chief

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Johnson was also part of the National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee under presidents George W. He’s involved with nonprofits such as NPower and Catalyst; supports Youth Eastside Services in Seattle; and is a board member at Seattle startup Amperity. Bush and Barack Obama.

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Tech Moves: Accolade appoints execs; Vacasa adds board member ahead of SPAC deal; and more

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Ada, a Seattle-based tuition-free software development boot camp dedicated to diversifying the tech industry, was founded in 2013 and became an independent nonprofit last year. Rick Crabbe is now chief revenue officer at RingSquared, a New Jersey telecommunications company. Crabbe was previously president and CRO at Redmond, Wash.-based

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Meet ADP's 'business anthropologist,' putting human thought behind chatbots

ComputerWorld IT Management

has developed her craft over 15-plus years at a variety of organizations — a nonprofit, a telecommunications company and an e-commerce firm. Bird, who ran a family farm in New Hampshire before earning an anthropology Ph.D., Her niche is helping global brands optimize their systems to meet the needs of users across multiple markets.

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Tech Moves: Ada Developers Academy bolsters board; Tune CEO steps down following acquisition; AWS execs promoted

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Michele Broderick , recently appointed CMO of The Esalen Institute , an education nonprofit based in Big Sur, Calif. She sees her role with the nonprofit as identifying liabilities and assessing risk factors in support of Ada’s growth. Mitchell joins Vioguard from the telecommunications industry. Tune Photo).