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2023 - Heading Home to CA
While working remote for Meta, I spent time in the Midwest to reconnect with family members. I was able to help with some family...
Mar 15, 2024


2018 - Speaking at Global City Technology Challenge Education SuperCluster in Washington, D.C.
It's challenging to get photos of your self pitching at events. I will add some photos and the presentation I shared during this GCTC...
Mar 15, 2024


2019 - Speaking at Global City Challenge Education Supercluster in Portland, OR
I spent a lot of time with these folks over the years working on the Global City Technology Challenge (GCTC) events. This time we were...
Mar 15, 2024


2019 - Speaking at The Internet of Everything: Here, There, Everywhere
Myles Weissleder has been putting on tech events in San Francisco for many years and it was nice of him to invite me to speak at one of...
Mar 15, 2024


2019 - Speaking at SPUR Oakland
I was asked to speak on panel about my data utility platform, Metropolitan Intelligence, which featured Augmented Neighborhood Watch. ...
Mar 15, 2024


2017 - Stephanie in Metropolis
I started pulling myself and my friends into Metropolis, the imagined city where everything is as it should be, and somehow it freed us...
Mar 7, 2024


www.stephaniehayden.com Updates
I finally decided to spend time gathering all of my work and putting it online. Note, I've had my stephaniehayden.com website since...
Mar 5, 2024


1976 - My dad & I at Disneyland
My dad was my best friend and taught me a lot. He died a few years after this picture, from a heart attack, when he was 39 years old....
Mar 5, 2024


2019 - Melrose Deep East Oakland
I stayed in AirBnBs for about 2.5 years throughout the 146 micro-communities in Oakland to try to meet people and see what they really...
Mar 5, 2024


2009 - Jumping instead of flying
I was flying helicopters a lot, then some pilot friends took me up and I got into a fixed-wing license too. I started thinking it might...
Mar 5, 2024


2021 - Ankle Surgery
Man, this was a rough year, and during COVID lockdown. I'm so lucky to have such amazing neighbors in Deep East Oakland who brought me...
Mar 5, 2024


2022 - Zoom Meeting Hell
I was working at Gap Inc. in San Francisco when COVID hit and we all started working from home. I started my next contract at Intuit,...
Mar 5, 2024


2009 - Idyllwild Reunion
I spent some time catching up with friends from Idyllwild at a big reunion we put together. There's something amazing about getting back...
Mar 5, 2024


2016 - Chicago Nov. 7
I started doing a lot of public speaking on future technologies and how we need to creativity to design our way into more connected...
Mar 5, 2024


2016 - Vision Architecture
I started incorporating illustrations in my work engaging youth in becoming the architects of their own future cities. This was some of...
Mar 5, 2024


2007 - Flying
The 2000s were when I met my husband in Chicago (now ex-husband), we moved back to the Bay Area, I traveled a ton for a software job and...
Mar 5, 2024


2000 - Leaving Chicago
I went to college in London, San Francisco, and Chicago during these years studying psychology, architecture, art, and technology. I got...
Mar 5, 2024


1990 - High school graduation
Wow. This was at my high school graduation. I don't know what else to say.
Mar 5, 2024


1980s - Growing up
These were fun, tragic, wild years. This is my brother (we don't share parents) growing up. We went everywhere together and had each...
Mar 5, 2024


1970s - It started early
I was born in Chicago, moved to Hollywood, then up to Idyllwild where I grew up in the woods with a bunch of other fun, wild, feral kids....
Mar 5, 2024
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