A conversation with Derrick N. Ashong, founder and CEO of Amp.it the platform that allows artists and fans to engage with each other through the integration of music and video.
This article is the third in a series that takes a critical look at the incessant calls for greater diversity in technology companies and how they reflect a deep philosophical dilemma. (Also see Part 1 and Part 2.)
More than a decade before diversity became a hot issue in Silicon Valley, Jason Young came home on winter break from Harvard to discover that his family was being evicted.
By now, it’s well known that the tech industry lacks diversity. At Google, for example, the tech work force is 60 percent white and 1 percent black. But what is not as well known are efforts to change that.