When it Comes to Diversity, Vanguard Puts its Money Where its Mouth is

Smita Ghosh

Before stepping foot into the 2019 Grace Hopper Celebration, the largest gathering of women technologists in the world, Smita Ghosh was preemptively overwhelmed.

“I knew there were going to be around 25,000 attendees, and I thought, this experience might be ‘a lot,’” said Ghosh, an environments configuration analyst II at Vanguard’s main campus in Malvern.

Together with a handful of her colleagues, Ghosh traveled to the conference, held in Orlando, to present the robot that she and her team built to get young girls excited about coding. Though nervous to present on such a large stage, she was thrilled to share the work that had allowed her to give back to her community, as well as showcase Vanguard’s technical capabilities.

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