Publish the interview with Ana Ruvalcaba

Co-authored-by: Inessa Pawson <[email protected]>

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+title: "Career Paths Lab: meet Ana Ruvalcaba"
+author: "Ana Ruvalcaba"
+date: "03/14/2024"
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+In this blog post, we are highlighting the career journey of [Ana Ruvalcaba] (https://www.linkedin.com/in/anaru/). 
+Ana is a founding member of the Jupyter Executive Council and is the 
+Director of the project’s program at California Polytechnic State University (San Luis Obispo, CA, USA).
+
+She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration with a minor in Ethnic Studies. Ana’s areas of
+expertise include program/project management, people management, operations, budgeting, and global events. 
+
+We learned more about her impact and journey from the following interview.
+
+## When did you start your open source journey?
+From 2016 to 2021 I partnered with Professor Brian Granger (Cal Poly/AWS) to manage over 2 million dollars in Jupyter
+grant funding at Cal Poly which included supervising full-time design/engineering staff and the Jupyter Internship 
+program. The internship program provided a unique learning environment for nearly 50 students from 6 cohorts who 
+worked in interdisciplinary teams to build Jupyter extensions. 
+
+Starting in 2019, I participated in a multi-year effort to create a new governance model for Project Jupyter and am 
+the first and only non-code contributor to Project Jupyter that has been elected to its leadership bodies, the Jupyter
+Steering Council (2018 - 2022) and Jupyter Executive Council (2022 - present). Over the years, I have collaborated 
+with a wide variety of stakeholders in open source, tech, and university environments to deliver a unique set of 
+contributions. 
+
+## Tell us about your work and contributions to open source
+I am a champion of diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives. In 2017, I co-authored the first Code of Conduct 
+policy for Project Jupyter. In 2022, I co-founded the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee, and I also serve 
+as a member of the NumFOCUS Diversity in Scientific Computing Committee. 
+
+I facilitated many global events that have reached thousands of Jupyter developers, designers, and users. These 
+include three team meetings for developers, over 20 local/regional community workshops, and JupyterCon (global 
+user conference).  I am a  co-founder of Jupyter’s Community Working Group which leads on strategic initiatives 
+designed to connect a global community of Jupyter enthusiasts. As part of that committee, I oversaw the creation
+of a community organizing committee responsible for establishing the structure, strategy, and impetus to kick off 
+planning for JupyterCon 2023.
+
+## Your open source contributions don't involve any coding. Could you classify and explain their importance and 
+impact on Project Jupyter to our readers?
+
+CODE OF CONDUCT
+Spearheading the creation of a more inclusive community, I partnered with Fernando Perez and Reese Netro to write
+the inaugural Code of Conduct policy for Jupyter in 2017. In 2023, I collaborated with folks from a CZI grant-funded
+project called the Contributor Experience Handbook. I also explored the possibility of a revitalization of current 
+COC processes. This work remains in progress and I am committed to creating a more effective COC framework for the 
+Jupyter community.
+
+COMMUNITY BUILDING
+In 2023, I co-founded three community working groups and standing committees. This involved writing charters for the
+groups and recruiting additional participants to join the efforts to grow the Jupyter community. Collaborations with
+key contributors allowed me to establish the Community Building working group (JCB) with Jason Grout from DataBricks, 
+Diversity Equity and Inclusion (JDEI) with Jason Weill from AWS, and Media Strategy (JMS) with Steven Sylvester. 
+Additionally, I provided instrumental support to the Documentation working group (JD) during its foundational phase.
+
+LEADERSHIP + GOVERNANCE
+I am the first and only non-engineer to be elected to the Jupyter Steering Council in 2018 and then to the Jupyter
+Executive Council in 2022. My work is focused on non-code contributions that impact our global community. 
+
+I serve as a key point of contact for [NumFOCUS](https://numfocus.org) and oversee the financial management of all 
+centrally managed Jupyter funds. In addition, I contribute to the Diversity in Scientific Computing Committee (DISC).
+In 2023, I partnered with Melissa Mendonça and Tania Allard to organize the DISC Unconference. I also led efforts in 
+the Methodologies for Collecting Community Data group during the event. 
+Read more about our work here: (​​https://numfocus.medium.com/disc-unconference-2023-designing-inclusivity-in-open-source-14019cbdb3cb)
+
+## What advice would you give to new open source contributors?
+Not all contributions to open source are on GitHub! The future of Project Jupyter and our ability to be sustainable
+for many decades to come is just as dependent on strategic activities that have the power to attract and retain 
+contributors as it is on decisions in the Jupyter code base.
+
+Inclusion and diversity matters! In order for diversity initiatives to succeed, inclusion must be cultivated and practiced.
+The people who build and design OS tools should be as diverse as the people who use them.