Education

• Continue our substantive security and privacy training for women and underrepresented communities, maintaining the status quo of 100+ attendance

• Develop workshop intensives: e.g., secure coding; Privacy-by-Design (PbD); Hacking 101; Privacy Tool Hackathon; Privacy Engineering; Lock Picking; etc.

• Increase corporate and non-corporate partnerships to support more substantive and leadership training for members

• Develop inclusive industry training materials

MENTORSHIP & NETWORKING

• Grow our WISP Tandem Mentors Program

• Mobilize members of the WISP community to mentor teens by teaching female and underrepresented students about careers in security and privacy

• Host and facilitate networking opportunities for our WISP community

• Grow our social media outreach across channels, our website, and the WISP Monthly Newsletter

• Expansion with new Local Groups in Dublin, Ireland, London, DC, New York City, and Toronto.

ADVANCEMENT

•  Help create a job pipeline for women and underrepresented communities to lead in security and privacy

• Launch a conference inclusion initiative. Partner with Equal Respect initiative to: promote inclusivity; develop a Speaker's Bureau; and curate a list of women and underrepresented community members who are available to speak on panels. 

• Develop and Maintain tools that support women and underrepresented communities in our industries (i.e., curated list of Call for Papers and Call for Speakers, Job Openings, Certification Resources, etc.)          

LEADERSHIP

• Provide leadership training to women and underrepresented communities

• Provide a platform for women and underrepresented communities to publish articles and share research

RESEARCH

• Research ways to include more women and underrepresented communities in security and privacy industries