Michael Donnelly, CEO at Brandless Group, knows events: She was previously an early employee at Techweek, founder of events consulting company Red Suede Shoes and cofounder of BizDev Conference and Events. But in attending and planning countless events around the Chicago she was frustrated at the...
The United States is losing a significant number of qualified minority engineers. Nonwhite and non-Asian engineers are leaving the field at a higher rate than others, according to the National Science Foundation. The NSF found that in 2013 (the latest year for which data are...
I first met Devanna Pena in Detroit, during the National Organization of Minority Architect's conference hosted by The Detroit chapter of NOMA. We shared a brief conversation about our top five MC's during a shuttle ride to the Bros Art Ball. That short conversation has...
Google is launching a tech lab in Oakland to mentor the next generation of African-American and Latino computer scientists. The Internet giant is working with MIT Media Lab on the Code Next lab, according to an email obtained by USA TODAY. Code Next is slated to...
digitalundivided recently completed the application cycle for the BIG Accelerator Program, the first accelerator program for Black and Latina women founders of high growth companies (more on how we developed the accelerator to come). BIG is a 12-week accelerator program for startups led by Black...