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USA Today
Intel has committed $300 million to ensure that by 2020 its staff mirrors what it calls the market availability of the U.S. tech workforce.
But even that kind of cash doesn't buy overnight success.
In the tech company's latest mid-year diversity report released Aug. 10, most of Intel's key metrics remained flat or ticked up slightly despite concerted efforts in the past six months to target women and minorities in the hiring process.
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Forbes
In March 2011, while attending a Berkeley Women Entrepreneurs Conference, Kimberly Bryant, an accomplished tech engineer with experience both broad and deep, found herself engaged in a discussion about the dearth of women working in the technology field. Observations ranged over the territory of shortages of women currently available in the resource pool, and a stagnant, even dwindling pipeline of women and particularly women of color in STEM sectors.
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USA Today
Just months after coming under heavy criticism for releasing a racially insensitive Bob Marley filter, Snapchat is facing another controversy, this time over a filter that people say promotes racist stereotypes of Asians.
The filter that turned selfies into "yellowface" Asian caricatures was "anime-inspired," according to Snapchat. The Venice, California, company said the filter, also called a lens, had been taken down and would not be used again.
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Forbes
Morgan Debaun is the cofounder and CEO of millennial-focused media site Blavity. The fast growing venture capital backed media site began as a desire to recreate the lunch table conversations Debaun had with fellow black students while at University of Washington in St. Louis. Her desire to create a space by and for other black millennials to share and consume content became a company in 2014 and quickly reached hundreds of thousands of unique viewers each month.
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HBCU Digest
Last fall, Nish Sonwalker was drawing laughs and gasps from a crowd assembled to discuss the future of technology in higher education. He had just proposed that education would soon be defined by teachers' ability to measure student interest in real time, by measuring their brain activity through use of a headband.
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NBC News
From Snapchat to Tumblr — our young people are naturally conversant with technology and online environments. But comfort with technology isn't enough to be prepared or get recruited for a job in Northern California. It takes a high-quality education with expectations calibrated to market demands. To date, the deck has been stacked against black and Latino students.
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Harvard Business Review
Over the past decade, technology companies and their leaders have launched diversity and inclusion (D&I) initiatives, hoping to make employees of all backgrounds and experiences feel welcome in our industry.
We failed.
The data shows that, especially in the tech space, we have not moved the needle on the number of women, blacks or Latinos in our ranks, despite efforts to do so. Why not? What are we missing?
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Inside Philanthropy
Jeffrey Dean is one of the unsung heroes of Google's success, and kind of a living legend in the tech community. He and his wife's nascent philanthropy is targeting the stark lack of diversity in his field.
At Google's headquarters, whispers follow software engineer Jeff Dean's path. His title is the unassuming Senior Fellow in the Research Group, but Dean’s been with the company since there were only about 20 employees, and he's been credited with programming advances that made Google's search so fast and even defined a lot of the modern web.
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The Cap Times
There's a new nonprofit in town focusing on teaching youth coding and tech skills — one specifically with a mission of reaching out to girls and students of color.
Entrepreneur and educator Winnie Karanja founded Maydm last fall with an eye toward bringing more diversity and inclusion to the white male-dominated tech sector. At the latest 1 Million Cups presentation at the Madison Public Library's downtown branch on recently, Karanja said there have been times where she's been the only woman of color in a tech-focused workplace.
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