With all that our country faces, I wanted to keep the focus on what, I feel, makes America Great. Valuing our Diversity. We still have much work to impact diversity retention in many technology companies made this blog feels timely. Our nation and our workforce are...
ITS ON!!! The nonprofit advocacy organization Black Lives Matter now has its first official ad agency. The group has teamed with J. Walter Thompson New York to create a new beta site called Backing Black Business, a web tool to make discovering black-owned small businesses throughout...
A company dominated by men hiring women from similar racial and socioeconomic backgrounds is not diversity in a meaningful sense. Maybe it’s all the recent data about the sad state of equitable pay and glass ceilings. Or the millions of women leaning in without a sea...
Here are some shout outs to the many impressive black women that did fantastic work in tech in 2016. Let’s face it: 2016 has been a rough year, and many of us are happily counting down the days for it to end. But while there have...
According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness, 1 in 5 young people ages 13 to 18 have or will have a mental illness at some point. But people of color are less likely to seek help. African-Americans and Hispanics use mental health services at...
Dive Brief: The tech industry is making only slight gains in hiring women and nonwhites, reports CNET. Although there are many reasons for recruiting more women and minorities, economic opportunity alone is perhaps the most significant. A recent report by consulting firm Accenture showed that without...