FLIPPABLE: Sarah DeMerchant for TX-HD26
Native Texan, Sarah raised by her parents, Robert and Dorothy Williams of Sugar Land, who have been together for 50 beautiful years. Her parents moved from Louisiana to Texas in search of good jobs and strong public schools. Sarah is a product of FBISD, graduating from Willowridge High School. Her first introduction to technology happened in early elementary school years while spending summers with family in Louisiana and Burnet County using a Commodore 64. She went on to take programming courses in Middle School. She captained her high school basketball team and played Division 1 basketball at UTSA. She graduated from University of Houston-Victoria with a MBA and was the Graduate Senator of Business on the Student Body Government. For undergrad she completed University of Houston-Downtown with a BBA in Computer Information Systems.
She became the youngest Consulting Manager at the 3rd largest software development company in the world at the time. She was the CTO of MazelTov.com. At present, she is a Securities Officer at one of the top 10 largest software development companies in the world, responsible for business and technical operations.
Early in her career a VP brought to her attention she had a wage gap. After that she became an equal pay for equal work and working families advocate partnering with the Obama Administration and the Shriver Report. In addition, she has given several interviews with USA Today, Essence Magazine and VICE News addressing the wage gap. Sarah speaks at colleges and conferences on overcoming the wage gap and minorities getting their career on the fast track.
Her software, Aequitas, designed to end the wage gap was featured on the White House website for 2 years after winning the Grand Prize and Women Innovation Mobile award from the U. S. Department of Labor Equal Pay app competition, competing against teams from Carnegie Mellon and MIT.
https://www.democratdemerchant.com/
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