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20 Nov Tech Diversity: Accelerators Go After Women, Underrepresented Minorities For New Startup Ideas

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When Diego Lafuente, 27, started pitching his idea for a startup that connects Hispanic Americans with lawyers, he was met with confusion. Mentors and classmates in his school’s accelerator seemed not to know the size of the Latino market or why the service would be useful to people who need immigration or other legal help.

19 Nov Atlanta Tech Diversity Pioneer Joins Opportunity Forces

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Rodney Sampson has many titles and has done many things in his career. The most paramount of those to date has been the creation of the Opportunity Hub in Atlanta and taking the reigns of the tech diversity mission in the Atlanta area and much...

18 Nov Madison365: Building Diversity In Madison Technology Startups

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[soundcloud url="https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/232525975" params="color=ff5500" width="100%" height="166" iframe="true" /] (WORT) — Madison365, a new online media organization that covers diverse communities, recently covered the burgeoning technology business sector in the city and its lack of diversity. In his report, Madison365 editor-in-chief David Dahmer explored this issue and introduced...

17 Nov Build Tech Pipeline for HBCU Scholars

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The computer giant has created a new internship program to give it access to African-American students across the nation.

17 Nov Tech Diversity’s Big Problem: How To Find 10,000 Black Engineers

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For tech companies looking to diversify their ranks, it’s going to get worse before it gets better.

16 Nov A blueprint for solving technology’s diversity problem

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I was 19 years old when I met the mentor who gave me my big break in tech. At the time, I had a few years of IT experience on my resume – which I’ll cover more later – but they weren’t nearly as critical to my ultimate career path as a serendipitous meeting with an executive. She read my applicant questionnaire and no doubt saw lots of “wrong” answers, but she also spotted something – analytical thinking and hands-on experience – that she felt was worth nurturing.