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Ellen Pao, who gained both fame and notoriety when she unsuccessfully sued Venture Capital firm Kleiner Perkins for sex discrimination, has landed back on her feet. She has taken a position as chief diversity and inclusion officer of for Kapor Center for Social Impact and a venture partner at Kapor...

Ellen Pao, who rocked the tech world with her sex discrimination suit against venture capitalist firm Kleiner Perkins, has dropped her appeal in the case, reports  re/Code. Pao lost the jury trial earlier this year and says an appeal would be too costly for her to wage. "I think I brought...

  When Ellen Pao was making headlines for suing Kleiner Perkins, she gained the support of many people who identified with her fight for equal pay and against gender discrimination in Silicon Valley.   When Pao was under attack by Reddit users for trying to eliminate some of the hate on that...

  Ellen Pao, interim chief executive of the popular messaging board, Reddit, announced Friday her decision to step down from her position, reports the New York Times.   This announcement comes after a week of criticisms from angry users following the dismissal of Victoria Taylor, a well-liked employee of Reddit. Many users in the...

Ellen Pao is a woman of courage.   She took on one of the most powerful venture capitalist firms in Silicon Valley suing them in an unsuccessful sex discrimination case.   The interim CEO of Reddit took down five community boards that had been taken over by trolls who violated Reddit's policy against...

Court papers filed Friday in San Francisco reveal that Ellen Pao is demanding Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers pay her $2.7 million not to file an appeal of her sex discrimination case, reports the Mercury News.   The high tech venture capitalist firm which beat the original complaint against it says...

Ellen Pao is expected to appeal a jury verdict that ruled the Silicon Valley venture capitalist firm Kleiner Perkins Caulfield and Byers did not discriminate against her when it fired her, reports the BBC.   Pao filed a notice of appeal at the state court in San Francisco on Monday.   Her...

Facebook Chief Executive Officer Sheryl Sandberg is talking about the Ellen Pao trial while Kleiner Perkins is making an offer to Pao in hopes the whole thing will go away. "So many women, not just in technology, across industries saw their own experience," said Sandberg to Bloomberg's Emily Chang about...

Ellen Pao who recently lost her sex discrimination case against venture capitalist firm Kleiner Perkins continues to push diversity at Reddit where she is interim CEO, reports CNN Money. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Pao says she's passed over candidates not committed to diversity, she's hired a...

By Emily Liu On Friday a jury ruled in favor of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, the defendant in the widely followed gender-discrimination suit brought by Ellen Pao. Pao alleged that the firm failed to prevent gender discrimination, did not promote her due to her gender, retaliated against her for...

A jury in the sex discrimination suit filed by Ellen Pao against venture capitalist firm Kleiner Perkins ruled the VC did not discriminate when it didn't promote her and then fired her, reports the Mercury News. Kleiner Perkins successfully argued Pao was difficult to work with and didn't have the...

The defense in the sex discrimination case against Silicon Valley venture capitalist firm Kleiner Perkins Caufiled and Byers grilled accuser Ellen Pao Tuesday. ABC7/KGO reports the courtroom became tense as attorney Lynne Hermle questioned Pao about her work history and her affair with co-worker Ajit Nazre. Hermle: You discussed having...

Ellen Pao took the stand in her sex discrimination case Monday against her former employer Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers, reported ABC7/KGO. The case is shining a spotlight on gender inequality in Silcon Valley. Pao said she originally turned down the job because she was offered a position she considered too...

Former venture capitalist Ellen Pao is asking for $16 million in damages for Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers for gender discrimination, reports the Mercury News. Pao says she was dismissed shortly after filing a written complaint about gender discrimination at the firm.  At a hearing this week, Pao questioned former...

By Ed Diokno, Views from the Edge Super Tuesday is upon us and Asian American voters are ready to cast their ballots. AAPI voters have about 4million eligible voters in the Golden State, which has 415 delegates up for grabs. The Democratic field of candidates has...

The Nevada caucus is less than a month away. Campaign signs in Mandarin and Tagalog have already begun to pop up around Las Vegas, KTNV reports. To win Nevada, many Democratic candidates are focusing on appealing to AAPI voters. According to KTNV, the number of AAPI Nevadans has grown by...

Views from the Edge   Silicon Valley's image of innovation, risk-taking and billionaire-making has a darker side of drugs, sex and misogyny that's fueled by a frat-boy culture, according to a new book by Emily Chang.   “About once a month, on a Friday or Saturday night, the Silicon Valley Technorati gather for...

So often we hear employers blame the lack of diversity on the pipeline, but that's clearly not the case with Asian Americans in Silicon Valley. A study by the Ascend Foundation found Asian Americans make up 27.2 percent of the employees in Silicon Valley, but just 13.9 percent of the...

By Ed Diokno Views from the Edge (Editor's Note: We continue our countdown of the top 5 stories of 2017. Story number 4 is the resistance to President Donald Trump) In 2017, Rose Tico, the Asian American character in Star Wars: The Last Jedi, stepped out of the background as a...

Three high profile discrimination cases against three separate companies have been filed by Asian American women in Silicon Valley. This may not be a coincidence, according to a story in Think Progress. The latest to file a case is Tina Huang who is seeking class action status in her discrimination case...