Despite Black women making great progress within the tech space in recent years, they still make up just 3% of the tech workforce and even less in Silicon Valley leadership—less than 5%. Nonprofit ...
Through the expansion of educational content in recent years, YouTube has become much more than a site for entertaining escapism, and video creators have heralded in a form of accessible, digital ...
Last month, when Melinda Gates announced a $50 million initiative to support gender-inclusive tech hubs, she highlighted a stubborn reality about the tech industry: By large margins, women are ...
ST PAUL, Minn — A software engineer from St. Paul noticed something missing from her field of work: women of color. Victoria Kyereme decided to create a nonprofit all about coding with a mission to ...
The program launched in 2013 when groups like Girls Who Code and Black Girls Code were part of a push in the tech industry to close the gender equity gap. Danny Rojas said that surge was important, ...
PROVIDENCE, R.I.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Women and girls of color will have additional opportunities for early involvement in the technology field via a new partnership between Citizens and Black Girls CODE ...
Local girls, ages 7 to 17, learned about coding at the Law Center’s “Build a Webpage in a Day” event, hosted in conjunction with Black Girls CODE and the Center on Poverty and Inequality. The ...
Lexy was a producer and on-air presenter who covered consumer tech, including the latest smartphones, wearables and emerging trends like assistive robotics. She won two Gold Telly Awards for her video ...
Cristina Mancini heads up Black Girls Code during a precarious time for POC and women in the industry. Credit: Courtesy Black Girls Code BGC's mission is to increase those numbers by partnering with ...