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25 Feb Chamillionaire Working As “Entrepreneur In Residence” For Venture Capital Firm Upfront Ventures

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Upfront Ventures partner Mark Shuster announced Chamillionaire as the company's new “Entrepreneur In Residence” in an article published in Bothsidesofthetable.com Sunday (February 22). “A while back Chamillionaire started telling me he wanted to immerse himself even more in the tech world – learning to build products,...

24 Feb INAUGURAL BLACK TECH WEEK HEATS UP MIAMI

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Code Fever and Black Tech Week co-founder Felecia Hatcher at The LAB Miami A groundbreaking inaugural conference celebrating innovators of color kicks off Monday in South Florida. Black Tech Week, Feb. 23-28, the brainchild of Miami-based nonprofit Code Fever, promises to be a weeklong series of events...

23 Feb Black Tech Week converges on Miami

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With the graphic design landscape crowded, Michael Hall needed to refocus his career. A friend in the technology sector showed him how. Today, Hall is head of Digital Grass Innovation & Technology, a company with a focus on diversity that supports tech startups, in lieu...

20 Feb Silicon Valley is trying to diversify, but strategies still lag

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On the Washington, D.C., campus of Howard University, Silicon Valley is an ever-growing presence. The engineering school’s new Yahoo Data Center was christened such after a donation from the Sunnyvale Internet firm. Google’s fingerprints are all over the school’s computer science curriculum, which was redesigned with help from a “Googler-in-Residence” installed on campus. Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg began the college iteration of her LeanIn movement there in fall 2013, and her company held an aggressive on-campus recruitment drive last year.

18 Feb Lawmakers launch tech diversity caucus

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Members of both chambers of Congress on Monday launched a bipartisan caucus aimed at getting more women, minorities and veterans into the tech sector. The eight leaders of the new Diversifying Technology Caucus said that the effort will work with the startup advocacy group Engine to push for greater inclusiveness and diversity in the industry, which has been criticized for being overly male, white and Asian-American.

17 Feb New Caucus Aims to Get More Women, Minorities Into STEM

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Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., helped found the Diversifying Technology Caucus, which aims to get more women and minorities into STEM fields. Despite significant strides to improve equality in business and education, women and minorities still lag significantly behind their white male colleagues in science, technology, engineering and math fields. Lawmakers and representatives from the technology industry gathered Monday on Capitol Hill to launch a new bipartisan caucus to address those issues head-on, encouraging more women and minorities to get into STEM fields and to promote equal opportunities for them.