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Fireside Chat Career Series: All Roads to a Tech Career Aren’t Linear: The Journey Into Non-Tech Roles
Fireside Chat Career Series: All Roads to a Tech Career Aren’t Linear: The Journey Into Non-Tech Roles
Monday, November 3, 2025, 6 – 8 pm
6 pm – Dinner for In-Person Guests | 6:30 pm – 8 pm – Presentation
This is a hybrid event and dinner will be provided for in-person attendees.
The ignITe Hub hosts a monthly Fireside Chat Career Series. Each month, we will host a trailblazing guest speaker to explore their unique tech career path. We will learn what sparked their interest in this area, meaningful experiences that impacted their journey and career advice for aspiring techies. Thank you to Verizon for their generous sponsorship of this series.
Mary Nichols has worked for over two decades with diverse experiences in leadership, customer support and success, data analysis, communications, administrative and independent media creation positions. Her journey into tech has been a lifelong passion of twists and turns in different career arenas, which also included a period of at the growing identity verification technology startup, ID.me
She is currently working as the Technology, Data and Operations Manager at for the Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County (AHCMC) in Silver Spring, MD. Mary is also a proud member of Washington, DC chapter of the American Federation of Musicians (AFM), DJ, music producer and a passionate promoter of education and applications of tech and the arts.
Guest Speaker

Mary Nichols
Technology, Data and Operations Manager
Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County (AHCMC)
