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Liz Fong-Jones
A woman with long black hair, black headphones and dark wire-rimmed glasses looks at the camera. She is wearing a sleeveless purple top and choker-length necklace and is sitting in a gamer chair.
Fong-Jones in 2020
Born 1987 (age 37–38)
Alma mater Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Occupation Systems engineer, developer advocate
Years active 2008–present
Employer Google, Honeycomb
Known for Labor activism

Liz Fong-Jones (born in 1987) is a talented computer engineer and a strong supporter of workers' rights. She is known for her work as a site reliability engineer and a developer advocate. This means she helps make sure computer systems work well and also helps people understand new technologies.

Liz Fong-Jones is also famous for her activism. She has worked to improve conditions for people who work in technology. She helped lead efforts for Google employees to speak up about important issues. She also helped create the "Never Again pledge," which was about not helping build technology that could be used in harmful ways. Today, she is the president of the board of directors for the Solidarity Fund by Coworker. This fund helps workers, and Liz started it with her own money. She also works as the field chief technology officer at a company called Honeycomb.

Education

Liz Fong-Jones started college in 2005 at the California Institute of Technology. However, she had to leave in 2007 because she realized she might not have enough money to finish her studies. She didn't want to go into a lot of debt.

Later, she went back to school. She studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), which is a very famous university for science and technology. She graduated in 2014 with a Bachelor of Science degree from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. This degree helped her become the skilled engineer she is today.

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