Diversity and inclusion have found their way into tech lexicon, and into Slack groups, task forces, and think pieces. I’ve found myself at the center of many of these, and always come away wanting more. Wanting to make an impact beyond a single conversation, wanting...
Entrepreneur and coder Felecia Hatcher has a mission: to get minority communities more involved in innovation. Hatcher is working to bring diversity into the science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields. Though she’s only 33 years old, Hatcher’s work has already attracted the attention of the...
Black Millennials are 11.5 million strong and leading a viral vanguard that is driving African-Americans’ innovative use of mobile technology and closing the digital divide. Nielsen highlights this group in a new report called “Young, Connected and Black: African-American Millennials Are Driving Social Change and...
On Oct. 13, at Quartz’s The Next Billion conference in San Francisco, I had the privilege of moderating a panel on diversity in tech with Kimberly Bryant, the founder of Black Girls Code, and Kate Mitchell, a co-founder of Scale Venture Partners. Panelists like these notwithstanding,...
When he was the chief digital officer at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, Sree Sreenivasan created the museum’s much-lauded app and redesigned its website, attracting millions of digital visitors and helping to increase attendance by young people. Then, in June 2016, the financially troubled...