From JNUC Diversity Sponsorship Recipient to a User Group Community BuilderBlog
I found out on a Monday evening in July, riding the subway home from work. I opened Gmail on my phone somewhere under Manhattan and saw I'd won the Jamf diversity scholarship, and I couldn't stop smiling the rest of the ride. I texted my partner right away. I'd applied because my department couldn't afford to send anyone, and JNUC had always lived in my head as this glowing space from the way senior engineers at old jobs talked about it. JNUC was in Nashville that year. I'd been to the city before for work, but never really gotten to enjoy it. Walking into the venue I just thought, wow, this is huge. I loved the vendor floor, finally putting faces to the account people I'd only ever emailed, and I got to meet up with an old coworker from a previous job, which made the whole thing feel less like a solo trip. One moment I keep coming back to: I was heading up the escalator and a woman struck up a conversation with me. Turned out she was also from NYC, and w
