Author: w3rtadmin

14 Sep

Former Dell exec starts DivInc to promote diversity among Austin’s tech entrepreneurs by Christopher Calnan

An Austin group focused on diversity in the technology industry is launching this month what it calls a “pre-accelerator.” DivInc, co-founded by former Dell Inc. executive Preston James, plans to operate a 12-week program for under-represented tech founders at the Galvanize Inc. co-working space downtown. The...

12:54 / Diversity

0 Likes

0 Comments

13 Sep

Blavity, the BuzzFeed for black millennials, is raising $1 million and gets a redesign by Sarah Buhr

Blavity, the new media and lifestyle site for the young and black in America, takes on meaningful subjects like the Black Lives Matter movement, NFL player protests and discrimination from Airbnb. The site, which showcases BuzzFeed-like content such as “15 times athletes joined Colin Kaepernick’s national...

11:12 / Diversity

0 Likes

0 Comments

12 Sep

This Woman Has Been Working on Diversifying Tech for Decades By Sherrell Dorsey |

When Trish Millines Dziko retired from her position as a program manager and senior diversity administrator at Microsoft in 1996, she was a rarity in her field. There were very few women of color computer programmers employed in the technology industry — a disparity she...

11:51 / Diversity

0 Likes

0 Comments

12 Sep

Intel’s fixing its diversity problem by doing more than just hiring by Alice Truong

The platonic ideal “We are at our best when we draw on the talents of all parts of our society, and our greatest accomplishments are achieved when diverse perspectives are brought to bear to overcome our greatest challenges.” —Barack Obama in 2011 The practice Genevieve Bell, who’s been...

11:45 / Diversity

0 Likes

0 Comments

12 Sep

Code Fellows pledges $5M to new Tech Opportunity Fund, with shout-out from VP Biden by Monica Nickelsburg

Code Fellows, a coding bootcamp headquartered in Seattle, is pledging $5 million to help women and minorities learn tech skills over the next five years. The scholarships are part of the Tech Opportunity Fund, a partnership between Code Fellows, The Iron Yard, and Operation Hope designed...

11:39 / Diversity

0 Likes

0 Comments