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07/17/2018

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07/16/2018

Join our team! We’re seeking an Operations Manager for immediate hire.

03/15/2018

Glassbreakers is sponsoring a once in a lifetime trip to D.C. for a pair of youth activists to join the March for our Lives. If your community has been impacted by gun violence we want to amplify your voice. Apply now. Details here:

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03/13/2018

Glassbreakers wants to send a pair of youth activists to Washington, D.C. to join their peers at the March for our Lives demonstration. Every voice matters. Please share to help us spread the word!

The Parkland High School shooting is a wake-up call. It’s a wake-up call that we can change the things that we must not accept. Gun…

03/09/2018

If you don’t understand why tech has a diversity problem, you won’t be able to understand how to fix it. The Kapor Center recently launched: http://www.LeakyTechPipeline.com, a new website tool that provides a framework to understand the problem and gives comprehensive solutions. These resources synthesize social science research and data on the barriers facing underrepresented groups in computing education, degree completion, the tech workforce, and tech entrepreneurship/VC.

These resources are intended to be used by multiple stakeholders (including tech industry leaders, diversity & inclusion practitioners, government, policymakers, philanthropy, and non-profits) to develop comprehensive and collaborative solutions that will move the needle on increasing diversity in tech--and realizing the full potential of individuals from all backgrounds to contribute to technological innovation.

Check it out and download the report for more information.

02/22/2018

Makeup artist Ruby Allegra is changing how people with disabilities are represented.

Growing up in Adelaide, Australia, Ruby Allegra never really saw someone who looked like them — that is, someone who has a disability that prohibits them from walking, and therefore they use a powered wheelchair — represented in film or TV or any ot…

01/18/2018

Diversity doesn’t stick without inclusion. http://ow.ly/3Z1M30hOCI1

The latter is harder to measure but just as important.

01/16/2018

Diversity in business boosts innovation, read new study here: http://ow.ly/VxeV30hL9Az

A new study reveals what many people have known all along—diversity in the workplace is good for innovation. Researchers at NC State’s Poole College of Management Gender looked at the hiring policies of the 3,000 largest publicly traded companies in the United States to see if companies with a d...

12/22/2017

Ellen Pao on Silicon Valley in 2017: ‘It does take a village for change to happen’ http://ow.ly/XJGf30hoVS8

Silicon Valley is more in check now than it has ever been, and that’s a good thing. With sexual harassment allegations swarming across the tech industry, female VCs coming together to support…

12/22/2017

Modeling agency aims to tackle misrepresentation of people with disabilities. http://ow.ly/roTG30hnXKQ

12/20/2017

Meet the future of technology — they’re 15 and they already know how to code via GOOD

Is the next Bill Gates in your local high school?

12/19/2017

Diversity is not a 'nice to have' via People of Color In Tech

By Abadesi Osunsade December 18, 2017 in Articles, Diversity, Main Diversity is not a ‘nice to have’ When it comes to fostering diversity and inclu...

12/07/2017

Chance the Rapper, Google team to bring computer science to Chicago public schools http://ow.ly/eopk30h597g

Chance the Rapper, Google team to bring computer science to Chicago public schools

12/04/2017

Building A Diverse Workforce In A Small Business http://ow.ly/YUHn30h0rWA

11/29/2017

Report finds little change in tech industry leadership diversity http://ow.ly/dJad30gU2GA

Asian women were the least represented group as executives when compared to their representation in the tech industry’s professional workforce.