Using your superpowers for good to change the world!
summary
A mobile app called Purple Evolution (PEVO) is built to help victims plan escape routes, find resources, and preserve evidence; it ships after repeated App Store rejections caused by layout/size issues that are fixed in Xcode and resubmitted on May 2. Development path cites self‑taught Objective‑C, a Bitfountain bootcamp, mentoring, and Women Who Code. The codebase is open source on GitHub, the stated goal is national rollout, and the app is already in use.
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chapters (16)
- 0:00Event introduction
- 4:45Punch cards to coding
- 10:12Early career struggles
- 13:24Learning to code
- 16:15Purple Pocketbook app
- 19:13Domestic violence stats
- 21:24First line of code
- 22:51Apps for social change
- 24:40Senior developer & mentor
- 25:38Alicia Vikki Carr’s story
- 27:44Coding & advocacy
- 29:13Pivo’s national impact
- 31:45Tech Girls & open-source
- 33:10Empowering girls in tech
- 33:39Meeting Tim Cook
- 34:56Optimism in tech
