“At almost every event that we ever went to, it was almost 100% male, every single time. There’d be a couple other women in the room… after that, we got together and were like, we need to do something about this.” —Alexis Gauba

Hello to the community! The twenty-fourth episode of Decentralize This!, Enigma’s podcast hosted by Tor Bair, has just been released. Today we are excited to feature Alexis Gauba.

Alexis is the cofounder of Mechanism Labs, an open-source research lab focused on studying consensus, scalability, usability, and other aspects of decentralized systems. She is also the cofounder and executive director of SHE256, a non-profit focused on increasing diversity and breaking down barriers to entry for the blockchain and decentralization space. Alexis is currently a student at UC Berkeley working on a degree in computer science, and she’s been very active in getting student communities more engaged with blockchain.

On Decentralize This!, we feature guests from around the blockchain and decentralization space. By taking a closer look at what prominent people are building and thinking about, we hope to find new ways to work together on creating solutions and getting these new technologies adopted at scale.

On this episode Alexis talks about diversity of builders and users in the blockchain space, how mentorship and education can contribute to a more sustainable and open ecosystem, and the role of design and design thinking in creating products that get adopted by millions of users worldwide.

Please listen using the link below and share with your friends, whether they’re in the decentralization space or not! We want to inspire people to think outside their day-to-day and come help us build a better future. If you want to suggest future guests, reach out to us on Twitter!

Decentralize This! is also available on Spotify and iTunes.

The Enigma Team