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Personal life
Scarlett grew up in Kirkland, Washington. She did well in school and was interested in astronautics and video gaming. Scarlett experienced sexual abuse at a young age, and when she was in high school began battling drug addiction.
Scarlett has a daughter.
Career
In 2007, while pregnant with her daughter, Scarlett saw an advertisement for a web development position at a real estate firm. She had learned to code when she was younger, experimenting with web development on the blogging platform LiveJournal. She got the job, and worked there for a portion of the year before becoming a freelance developer. In 2011, Scarlett began working as a web developer at USA Today.
In 2015, Scarlett began a job at the Activision-Blizzard video games studio. She began to realize that she was experiencing discrimination in the technology industry, and pressed the company's human resources department on gender-based pay discrimination she had observed. She left the company, which would later be subject to a 2021 lawsuit filed by the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing over alleged systemic discrimination, sexual harassment, and retaliation.
References
- ^ Albergotti, Reed (October 14, 2021). "She pulled herself from addiction by learning to code. Now she's leading a worker uprising at Apple". The Washington Post. Retrieved October 14, 2021.