WISE and Shine offers an informal opportunity to ask questions, hear about life in industry, and explore the unconventional places a degree in can take you while enjoying an early dinner. 
Alicia is the Vice President of Legal Strategy at an AI chip startup called Tenstorrent -- a company proudly pushing the boundaries of what it means to be "open" by developing open source software, open standards, and hardware that gives customers control.  Prior to Tenstorrent, Alicia worked for a company named Altera (which was acquired by Intel), then Intel.  Alicia started her career at the law firm Kirkland & Ellis LLP, litigating some of the largest patent cases in the world for on all sorts of technology (combustion engines, cell phones, knee implants, cryptography, semiconductor fabrication, and paint dispensing machines, to name a few).
Alicia is a proud double Wolverine, holding Mechanical Engineering and Law degrees from the University of Michigan.  She's also married to a Wolverine, whom she met on the University of Michigan Solar Car team.  She has two kids, two cats, eight chickens, and (roughly) 40K backyard bees. 
 If you are interested in AI, the path from STEM to law school, life in San Francisco, or sharing your yard with forty thousand bees, then please come join us for an evening with this fascinating and dynamic alum!