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 NBCUNIVERSAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL, the industry's premiere diversity short film festival, is a nationwide search for talent focused on discovering the next generation of content creators. The bicoastal festival seeks narrative works made within the last two years in the categories of DRAMA, COMEDY, WEB SERIES and Comedic PILOTS. The goal is to not only scout up-and-coming directors, writers and actors but to introduce them to top industry executives, agents and tastemakers while awarding prizes ranging from camera packages, monetary grants, development meetings and holding deals. Notable alumni include Randall Park (FRESH OFF THE BOAT) and Hasan Minhaj (THE DAILY SHOW WITH TREVOR NOAH). To learn more and submit, visit NBCUshortsFEST.com
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The Washington Post
Four years ago, Google began sending engineers to historically black colleges such as Howard University for its "Google in Residence" program, an attempt to improve its recruiting from these campuses, prepare students for Google's peculiar hiring practices, and inject their computer science courses with more of the up-to-date skills that Silicon Valley needs.
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USA Today
Uber's first ever diversity report confirms that the embattled ride-hailing company faces the same workforce challenges as its tech world peers.
While the company does employ a good number of women, African-Americans and Hispanics, those groups are not well represented among Uber's top leadership and technical positions and instead skew heavily toward the company's preponderance of support and operational roles.
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Forbes
In 2014, Google made a pioneering contribution when it published its first diversity and inclusion report, a move soon followed by other tech giants such as Apple, Intel and Salesforce. Given our focus on linking diversity and performance, this month we were delighted to learn about two new diversity reports by Atlassian, which broke new ground by shifting the analysis from the aggregate, corporate level, to the level of teams and individuals.
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Next Pittsburgh
When studies showed Pittsburgh's growing tech scene had a diversity problem, the city reacted with the Roadmap for Inclusive Innovation. Created in partnership with the Department of Innovation and Performance and the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA), the plan seeks to make the city's technology boom accessible and beneficial to everyone. The Roadmap's mission continues with the second annual Inclusive Innovation Week, a citywide initiative promoting equality in Pittsburgh’s tech and maker scenes.
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Tech Republic
When Nitin Pachisia arrived in the US from India in 2005, he became one of the 8 million first-generation immigrants to land in America that year.
Nearly a decade later, Pachisia has learned from firsthand experience how much support immigrants need to create their own thriving startups. In 2014, he co-founded Unshackled Ventures, a firm that invests in immigrant entrepreneurs. Pachisia is using his money to help other immigrants get their businesses started — and creating 100,000 American jobs while he's at it.
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CNet
If the first step is admitting you have a problem, the tech industry might be further behind than we thought.
An overwhelming majority of tech employees — 94 percent — say their teams, companies and the industry overall get passing grades for trying to create diverse workforces, a result that flies in the face of corporate transparency reports that find Silicon Valley overwhelming white and male.
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Tech. Co
Podcasting platform AudioBoom has just released new research on the demographic breakdown of the podcast market. Minorities remain underrepresented in what the service terms "a major diversity gap between the millions of podcasts available and the minority audiences they’re not yet reaching."
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BuzzFeed News
Visabot — a Facebook Messenger chatbot that guides immigrants through the visa application process — just added a capability that will make Silicon Valley very happy. Starting March 28, Visabot can help people navigate the labyrinthine process of transferring their H1-B work visa to a new employer.
Often, tech workers who are in the US on H-1B — or "skilled worker" visas — work for corporations like Google, Microsoft, or Intel, which have giant legal teams that help with visas.
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The Business Journal
While the number of tech jobs nationwide is climbing, the white-male dominated industry is struggling to diversify.
According to the U.S Equal Employment Opportunities Commission (EEOC), an overwhelming majority of tech jobs are held by whites (63.5 to 68.5 percent), followed by Asian Americans (5.8 to 14 percent), with a smaller share of jobs held by Hispanics (8 percent to 13.9 percent) and African Americans (7.4 to 14.4 percent). Among executives in the industry, only 2 to 5.3 percent are African American.
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