Kathy Pham's guest appearances

Kathy Pham

The YouSchool Podcast

Alexander The Curious George 

Product Thinking

Melissa Perri

Teresa Torres

Paul Adams

Bob Goff

Jeff Patton

John Martin

Kim Jones

Kent Beck

Jerry Jones

Cara Miller

Danny Kim

Michael Davidson

Jeff Gothelf

Anthony Moore

John Cutler

OwlTail

Melissa Perri’s guest on this week’s Product Thinking Podcast is Kathy Pham. Kathy is a computer scientist, a product management executive, and co-leads the Ethics and Responsible Tech at Mozilla. She also co-founded the Mozilla Fix the Internet Incubator, as well as the Product and Society at Mozilla, which focuses on product management, ethics, and the public interest. Kathy joins Melissa to discuss product ethics.Here are some key points you’ll hear Melissa and Kathy talk about in this episode: Interesting details about the product management class Kathy teaches at Harvard. [00:47] Kathy’s experiences working at The White House, Harvard, and in product management. [5:52] Ethics and its implications for product management. [12:58] Accessibility and security are important and need to be integrated into a product from the very beginning. [15:48] When designing products for an inclusive audience, you have to take into consideration the team culture that is in place and build out those personas to be as inclusive as possible. “I think it's important to build into the culture knowing that the moment something is built it's really hard to reverse,” Kathy tells Melissa.[19:35] How to respond to changes or challenges with your product platform when it happens in another country where no member of your team is from. [23:34] As product managers, we need to be listening to our users, and that includes listening to those users who are telling us what we don’t want to hear. It means not condemning or shutting down their feedback by telling them they’re wrong. [28:34] Having diverse perspectives within our product teams is very important for the decision-making process. It ensures that the concerns of the target audience are heard and are taken into account. [30:32] When the people building our program algorithms make terrible assumptions or have blind spots, they bake into them issues that already exist in the world and just propagate them through code. [38:50] ResourcesKathy Pham | LinkedIn | Twitter

Melissa Perri’s guest on this week’s Product Thinking Podcast is Kathy Pham. Kathy is a computer scientist, a product management executive, and co-leads the Ethics and Responsible Tech at Mozilla. She also co-founded the Mozilla Fix the Internet Incubator, as well as the Product and Society at Mozilla, which focuses on product management, ethics, and the public interest. Kathy joins Melissa to discuss product ethics. Here are some key points you’ll hear Melissa and Kathy talk about in this episode:<ul> <li>Interesting details about the product management class Kathy teaches at Harvard. [00:47]</li> <li>Kathy’s experiences working at The White House, Harvard, and in product management. [5:52]</li> <li>Ethics and its implications for product management. [12:58]</li> <li>Accessibility and security are important and need to be integrated into a product from the very beginning. [15:48]</li> <li>When designing products for an inclusive audience, you have to take into consideration the team culture that is in place and build out those personas to be as inclusive as possible. “I think it's important to build into the culture knowing that the moment something is built it's really hard to reverse,” Kathy tells Melissa.[19:35]</li> <li>How to respond to changes or challenges with your product platform when it happens in another country where no member of your team is from. [23:34]</li> <li>As product managers, we need to be listening to our users, and that includes listening to those users who are telling us what we don’t want to hear. It means not condemning or shutting down their feedback by telling them they’re wrong. [28:34]</li> <li>Having diverse perspectives within our product teams is very important for the decision-making process. It ensures that the concerns of the target audience are heard and are taken into account. [30:32]</li> <li>When the people building our program algorithms make terrible assumptions or have blind spots, they bake into them issues that already exist in the world and just propagate them through code. [38:50]</li> </ul> ResourcesKathy Pham | <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/kathytpham/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">LinkedIn</a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/kathytpham?lang=en" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Twitter</a>

Building Responsible Products with Kathy Pham

Janny Bui

Before all the madness. This was recorded February 20, 2020.

Episode 26: MAKING MOVES — Fashion & Life & Immigration — feat. Kathy Pham & Janny Bui 02/20/2020

In this episode, we interview Kathy Pham, long time YouSchool Guide and full-time Director of Youth Development with UrbanLife in City Heights, an inner city neighborhood in San Diego. Kathy shares her own journey to transitioning from climbing the corporate ladder to dedicating her time and energy to being a role model, mentor, and friend to hundreds of inner-city high school students. She brings up a lot of interesting topics, including urban farming, the Enneagram personality tool, Strengths Finder, an epidemic of fatherlessness amongst today's inner city youth, and a study on the increase of middle-aged men dying from suicide.  Connect with Kathy through LinkedIn. 

In this episode, we interview Kathy Pham, long time YouSchool Guide and full-time Director of Youth Development with <a href="/theyouschool/episode/urbanlifesd.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">UrbanLife</a> in City Heights, an inner city neighborhood in San Diego. Kathy shares her own journey to transitioning from climbing the corporate ladder to dedicating her time and energy to being a role model, mentor, and friend to hundreds of inner-city high school students. She brings up a lot of interesting topics, including <a href="https://www.urbanlifesd.org/farms/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">urban farming</a>, the <a href="https://www.enneagraminstitute.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Enneagram</a> personality tool, <a href="https://www.gallupstrengthscenter.com/home/en-us/strengthsfinder" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Strengths Finder</a>, an epidemic of <a href="http://www.fathers.com/statistics-and-research/the-extent-of-fatherlessness/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">fatherlessness</a> amongst today's inner city youth, and a <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/suicide-rates-are-30-percent-1999-cdc-says-n880926" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">study</a> on the increase of middle-aged men dying from suicide.  Connect with Kathy through <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/kathy-pham-a07b1015/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">LinkedIn</a>.

008 Kathy Pham -- Impacting Inner City Students with from UrbanLife