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On this week’s episode of AfroLAWtina, I spoke with Bärí A. Williams - a tech and internet law rockstar. By the way, she’s the attorney that shut down a rapper on Twitter when he tried to mansplain about the Fyre Festival ? Tune in to hear a REAL conversation on tips to negotiate your salary (cut down on that wage gap!), tools like books that address everything “Lean In” DIDN’T, and entering spaces like tech law where Black and Hispanic women are heavily underrepresented. About Bärí: Bärí A. Williams is VP of Legal, Business, and Policy Affairs at All Turtles, a startup advisor in the tech industry, and published author in the New York Times, WIRED, Fortune, and Fast Company. She is the former Head of Business Operations Management for North America at StubHub, where she was responsible for business planning and operations to manage and oversee technical internal and external metrics, product innovation, and partnerships and drive P&L results across the company. Prior to StubHub, Bärí was a senior commercial attorney at Facebook supporting internet.org connectivity efforts, building drones, satellites, and lasers, and supporting the company's supply chain. She also successfully took on the passion project of creating and implementing Facebook’s Supplier Diversity Program, launched in October 2016. Bärí is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley (BA, Mass Communications), St. Mary’s College of California (MBA), the University of California, Los Angeles (MA, African-American Studies), and the University of California, Hastings College of Law (JD).Support the show