I’m Shawna Martell (she/her)

My role at Carta is as one of the senior-most ICs in the organization. In addition to working on multiple product teams, I have contributed to the reimagining of our interview process and engineering onboarding program. I was the co-founder of the engineering mentoring program, and lately I have been working on the next iteration of our audit tooling.

I went back to an IC position when I started at what was at the time Yahoo!. After about three years, I went back to management, around the time Verizon bought the company. I worked on the Big Data platforms team, building grid management software and overseeing grid ingress, egress, and data movement tools.

Wolfram was my very first job out of grad school. I started as a Jr. Web Developer, did a 4 year stint in management, then moved into an IC Web Architect role. I worked on early Wolfram|Alpha development, oversaw all Wolfram web properties, and worked on the inital Mathematica Online release.

My focus areas were Digital Marketing and Business Analytics. I'm an IC with an MBA. What can I say? I'm weird.

Simultaneously the longest and shortest year of my life. I did the two year program in one year, because I had life plans that needed me in Central IL in September of 2006. His name is Joshua, and he was worth it.

Second major in Mathematics. This isn't the Houghton you're thinking of. This one is in New York, not Michigan. Like middle of no where New York. It's... a long story.

I represent the voters of Milton 16, educating, registering, and turning out voters.

As a member of the Board, I help shape, iterate, and execute the League's initiatives in the communities we serve.

Your Wheaton believes every resident deserves to be seen/heard, celebrated, respected, and represented. Thus we are striving for a more equitable, transparent, and community-driven government by our elected officials with an eye toward positive progress for all of our residents and our community as a whole. I help with the website, event planning, and voter education.

Indivisible DuPage is a grassroots organization, championing progressive values across DuPage County. I am responsible for helping manage events, organize data and documents, and our website.

I organize volunteers for canvassing, phone banking, and events for Jackie Williamson's run for the 47th IL House District.

As Secretary, I was responsible for organizing regular meetings, taking minutes, overseeing communications, managing party files and data, and coordinating the appointment of vacancies.

I represented the voters of City of Champaign 34, registering and turning out voters.

The People's Agenda was a grassroots organization in Champaign-Urbana working on voter education, candidate recruitment, and get out the vote initiatives. I was responsible for managing volunteer events as well as our social media and web presence.

I served on the organizing committee for the annual prom fundraiser and regularly attended food repacks and distributions. I also launched and maintain their Online Virtual Food Drive where they have raised more than $30K.