Rebecca Altamirano

Founder, Tangelo Technologies

Rebecca Padnos Altamirano is an entrepreneur, author, activist, and educator who has dedicated her professional life to increasing access to the culture of power for underrepresented communities. As a biracial woman from a multicultural family, she is primed for building bridges between people, networks, and communities. Her professional path has given her deep hands-on experience in working with the underserved and underrepresented. She details many such efforts in her book Be The Change: Reinventing Schools for Student Success (Columbia Teachers College Press). She conceived of WalkWoke, an iPhone app for designing protest signs that empower freedom of speech through art. Rebecca is focused on Venture Development at Tangelo Technologies, the company she co-founded with her husband, Antonio. Established in 2007, Tangelo provides experience design for startups and corporations, including Intel, Facebook, Google, and Intuit. With expertise in digital revenue growth, automation, conversational technology, and custom software applications (among other business domains), Tangelo is widely recognized as an innovative, one-stop solution shop. Rebecca also serves on several boards and task forces including at the Stanford School of Medicine and Stanford Graduate School of Education. She has written for the Huffington Post, Thrive Global, and Ms. Magazine.