3. Liz Fong-Jones – “You *can* be successful as a trans person. I wish there were more of us.”

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Description

Liz Fong-Jones is a Site Reliability Engineer and former high-ranking Google employee who used her talents as a coder and some strategic planning to take her out of a tumultuous early home life, and into the life of a multi-millionaire. Arlan and Liz met up in New York City to speak candidly about life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Guest

Liz Fong-Jones

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• Website

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• Effective Altruism

Transcript

You can find the transcript for this episode here.

Credits

Producer and Editor: Anna Eichenauer
Senior Producer: Bryan Landers
Additional audio mixing and mastering: Alfred ‘Rook‘ Hamilton
Additional production: Chacho Valadez
Executive producer: Arlan Hamilton

Music:

• https://soundcloud.com/jeff-kaale/the-art-of-cool
• https://soundcloud.com/jeff-kaale/sunday-afternoon
• https://soundcloud.com/jeff-kaale/pancakes
• https://soundcloud.com/jeff-kaale/hearts-flowers