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BBC News
Rodney Sampson helps run Codestart, a 13-month program designed to teach young people from low-income backgrounds or communities about coding, finance and finding jobs.
He was partly inspired by the lack of African Americans working in the tech industry - 1 percent of tech employees at Google, Facebook and other leading Silicon Valley companies are black.
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Bloomberg
Google Ventures Chief Executive Officer Bill Maris discusses the investment arm of Google's parent company Alphabet and Silicon Valley's diversity issues with "Studio 1.0" host Emily Chang.
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Silicon Valley
It's 9 a.m. and '70s funk is reverberating down a tree-lined block of suburban Palo Alto, California. The twang of an electric bass emanates from a nondescript two-story building midblock, accessible through a chain-link gate and down an alleyway. Inside, a hand-lettered sign reading "Welcome to Walker & Company" hangs above a bar cart that's liberally stocked with tequila, half-full wine bottles and Fireball whiskey.
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Wired
Just over a year ago, I was peering through a window into a San Francisco courtroom, waiting to be allowed inside. I'd been covering the Ellen Pao sex bias trial for five weeks, filing from the courtroom daily. Now the trial was over, and the world was awaiting the verdict. My thoughts on what I felt the outcome should be remained muddled, but time didn't wait for me.
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Ebony Magazine
As one of the eleven Black female founders who successfully raised over $1 million in funding, according to a recent #ProjectDiane report conducted by Digitalundivided, it was surprising to Cheryl Contee to have recently been denied a small business loan.
So surprising in fact, the CEO at Fission Strategy and Co Founder of Attentive.ly (both reportedly successful businesses) took to social media to air out her grievances.
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Ebony Magazine
For Aisha Bowe, CEO and Co-Founder of STEMBoard and former aerospace engineer at NASA's Ames Research Center, starting a tech company in Silicon Valley was a no go. "We went to the Valley to raise money and the reception wasn't what we had hoped for, so we decided we knew what we wanted to do and that we were going to make it work. So I continued to work at NASA for two years until we got the company off the ground," says Bowe.
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Fortune
Helena Price was always drawn to technology, even while growing up in her small town in North Carolina. But she didn’t discover the mechanics of the industry behind some of her favorite services like AOL's AIM chat until she got to college and eventually joined a couple of startups after graduation. Worse: She spent years feeling like an outsider because everyone she met had fancy pedigrees and degrees from prestigious schools.
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The Christian Science Monitor
Stephanie Lampkin, a petite black woman, was once told during a job interview that her background wasn’t “technical” enough for software engineering jobs. She was told this despite a software engineering degree from Stanford University and stints working for Microsoft and Deloitte. "So I made an app," she quipped while presenting at an inclusive innovation showcase at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology last month.
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New York Daily News
Diversity is a sensitive and often controversial topic, and employers take great strides to maintain and ensure a diverse workforce.
In fact, companies spend millions of dollars advertising job openings, recruiting job candidates from many different communities and backgrounds, and training and developing their workforces so they are diverse.
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