Heather Cabot

Heather Cabot is a writer, reporter and adjunct professor at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. She is a member of Golden Seeds angel investing network, a Pipeline Fellowship alumna, and an investor/advisor to numerous women-led ventures including Project Gravitas, Cisse Trading Co, and DayOne Response. Cabot is a former ABC News anchor/correspondent and served as Yahoo! Web Life Editor from 2007-12 in which she reported on digital trends for TODAY, CNN, MSNBC, Fox News and syndicated daytime talk shows. Cabot first got interested in this topic as a researcher on the 1995 PBS documentary “Minerva’s Machine: Women and Computing,” which profiled female pioneers, including US Navy Rear Admiral Grace Hopper.

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