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San Francisco Gate
San Francisco's TaskRabbit has named Chief Operating Officer Stacy Brown-Philpot as its CEO, making her one of the few black women to lead a Bay Area tech company. Leah Busque, who has led the odd-jobs marketplace since founding it eight years ago, will become executive chairwoman.
"Since she joined three years ago, Stacy has helped TaskRabbit evolve the platform, launch in international markets (London) and recruit talent at all levels of the company," Busque wrote in a post on Medium.
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USA Today
Slack has hired Leslie Miley, the former Twitter engineer who sparked public debate for publicly challenging the social media company's commitment to advancing diversity.
Miley joined Slack as a director of engineering for its growth team. The hire underscores the high-profile tech start-up's reputation for driving the conversation about Silicon Valley's white male-dominated corporate culture and for trying to remake its own.
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Forbes
Thousands-of-dollars worth of electronics covered every surface of the renovated warehouse on Folsom Street. More than a dozen fold-up cots covered the nearby loft where they awaited sleepy students that would never come.
While a handful of students took advantage of the resting area, most worked through the night as they made history at Red Bull Hack the Hits Presented by RECESS, the first 24-hour hackathon of its kind.
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Technical.ly Delaware
Straight out of Hodgson Vo-Tech High School in Newark, Delaware, eight years ago, Darrick Hayman began working in building information modeling (BIM).
That involves creating virtual, 3-D renderings of proposed buildings so that contractors have a better handle on the site's plumbing, mechanical piping, electrical wiring and carpentry in addition to how things will fit in the space and how the space will look.
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The Huffington Post
Belinda Liu writes: Last month, I traveled to Austin for the South by Southwest (SxSW) Interactive Conference to host a Culture Design Meetup. I was thrilled to see the emphasis on diversity with sessions like "Building Inclusivity," "Why Diversity Can't Be Built in a Day," and "Breaking Down Unconscious Bias."
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Tech Crunch
June Sugiyama writes: In my 20-plus years in tech, and now in Silicon Valley as part of a tech foundation that supports innovations, I've had the opportunity to partner with many entrepreneurs and help foster the growth of dozens of startups for social good. As a woman, the fact that I'm still working in tech, and in a leadership position, is not lost on me.
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Fast Company
Pondering the business case for diversity, Todd L. Pittinsky, a professor of technology and society at Stony Brook University, observes something isn't quite right. "Different kinds of people will come up with different kinds of ideas, and the more variety, the better," he writes in Harvard Business Review. Multiple studies have backed this up.
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Diginomica
It's the season when politics is the water cooler topic if you care about the U.S.' future and dare to speak about it. Core to this political disruption and revolution we're witnessing is the inability of many Americans to find employment in the new world order driven by "knowledge workers." Which leads me to the topic of diversity in tech.
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Tech.Co
Diversity — a single word that has caused enough fear and disruption within the tech and startup world over the last few years. But what does it really mean? With so much confusion on the specifics of the word (does it mean better representation? Equity amongst various identities? More 101 Workshops to explain the basics?), it's easy to see how the well-intentioned origins of the word could get lost beyond marginalized groups.
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The Guardian
The more diverse we are, the better we are at making smarter decisions. So why, oh why, is what should be our most innovative industry — technology — also our most homogeneous?
For decades, the research has been demonstrating the advantages of diversity. It isn't just that people from a variety of backgrounds bring different kinds of information and ways of thinking to the table, it's the fact that when we have to deal with people who aren't just like us, we ourselves do better: We do our homework more rigorously, we bolster our arguments more thoughtfully, we may prepare ourselves for a more lengthy process of reaching a conclusion.
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