"The events of 2020 amplified the inequity for black and brown people in our country on every level. I knew that I had to help address this socio-economic imbalance in some way. So, I created a workforce development solution to a tech industry problem.
The problem? Tech companies are investing in diversifying their rapidly-growing workforce, but are hampered by small talent pools because existing intervention programs (coding boot camps) require prior coding knowledge or access to credit to pay for tuition. That means a majority of potential candidates can’t access software development training.
The solution? Scale up tuition-free access to training for as many historically underrepresented racial minorities as possible and give tech companies multiple touch points to interact with them. We want to live in a world where minority representation in the tech sector mirrors their percentage in the US population.
We founded a software development reskilling nonprofit that enrolls thousands of underrepresented racial minorities and gives them an opportunity to start a tech career so we can live in that world."
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