Mental Health in the workplace

Taylor started her career as a first grade teacher on the south side of Chicago. It wasn’t until she met actual engineers while working in sales at an ed-tech startup that she decided she wanted to be the one building the product. After attending a coding bootcamp, she joined Disney and helped launch the Movies Anywhere app. She is currently an iOS engineer working on features for the core experience of the meditation and mindfulness app, Headspace, and has recently started to explore AR and computer vision technologies through consulting work. As someone passionate about empowering underrepresented groups in technology, Taylor is involved in the organization 9 Dots, which teaches computer science to elementary students in LAUSD, and will also be teaching a unit on app development to students at her all girls middle school this Fall.

Dion Fulwood began his tech journey at Georgia State University in Atlanta, GA. Upon receiving his Computer Science degree he moved to The Bay Area to continue his education at an advanced software engineering immersive program, as well as teach programming fundamentals to students just beginning their own journey. After completing the immersive program, he moved to Los Angeles to contribute his skills mindfulness at Headspace, where he has been for the past four years. Dion also lends his time to the 9 Dots organization as a member of their Ambassador Board as well as coming up with ideas and implementing them through code to hone his technical skillset. In his free time, Dion loves all things, Marvel, hanging out with his friends, and exploring all Los Angeles has to offer.

Bhavini is VP of Engineering at Headspace and comes with a diverse 20+ yrs experience across various industries from Healthcare, Wellness, Social, to Cloud Platforms. Her experience is spread across different companies like Microsoft, Snapchat, Heal and Headspace. She loves giving back to the community; advising C-level executives to set & execute on business & technology strategy; Mentoring to Techstars and has also founded Women Tech executives forum in LA consisting of CTOs & VPs to support & foster this minority group while playing an active role in LA CTO Forum. She loves the outdoors and enjoys boogie boarding with her family.

Kenny was born in El Salvador and immigrated with her family to the United States when she was just 11 years old. Though English was her second language, she knew that if she was disciplined and hard-working she would be able to overcome any obstacle. She studied Marine Biology at UCSB but joined a meditation club and realized that her true passion was in mental health and wellness. Her work began at Headspace in 2017 in Customer Experience then transitioned to Quality Assurance and finally the International Team. There she contributes to bringing Headspace to communities around the world in German, French, Spanish, and Portuguese. When she isn’t at work, you can find her rock climbing, backpacking, or exploring nearby trails with Penny, her Boston Terrier.