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Digital Diversity Network
Digital Diversity Network and theREGISTRY Bay Area have partnered again this year to recognize the outstanding achievements of 40 diverse leaders under the age of 40 in the Innovation Economy. The awards will be conferred upon individuals from underrepresented communities of color who live and work in the Silicon Valley and San Francisco Bay Areas. Individuals (age 40+) or entities selected for the category of Game Changer will also be acknowledged.
Honorees will be recognized during a VIP reception, awards ceremony and celebration to be hosted by Salesforce on Thursday, Dec. 8 from 6–9 p.m. at Rincon Center, San Francisco. Visit bayarearegistry.com/40-under-40-2016 for entry guidelines and to submit nominations by Friday, Nov. 18.
USA Today
The Congressional Black Caucus has called on Facebook to stop allowing advertisers to exclude racial and ethnic groups when placing housing ads in what lawmakers say is a violation of federal anti-discrimination housing laws.
"We are writing to express our deep concerns with reports that Facebook's 'Ethnic Affinities' advertising customization feature allows for advertisers to exclude specific racial and ethnic groups when placing housing advertisements," members of the caucus wrote in a letter addressed to Facebook's chief executive Mark Zuckerberg.
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Inc.
Pandora is setting ambitious workplace diversity goals that would set it apart from the vast majority of tech businesses.
Accompanying the release of its 2016 diversity report, the music-streaming company tells Inc. that it intends to have a workforce comprising 45 percent employees of color by the year 2020.
To achieve the goal, Pandora says it plans to start bringing the demographics of its four largest offices in line with the populations of the cities where they're located.
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Forbes
Software engineer Leslie Miley made waves when he left Twitter citing frustration over the company's unwillingness to become more diverse and inclusive. Today Leslie is the Director of Engineering at Slack, a tech company that is breaking new ground when it comes to diversity, and he's an outspoken promoter of change. I caught up with him to find out what he wants to tell every CEO.
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The State Press
In the face of gleaming new gadgets and groundbreaking data, sometimes social issues in the technological community seem to be afterthoughts. However, the scientific industry is shaped by those who participate in it, and a new study says some groups are underrepresented.
This ASU study indicates that African Americans are among those who are scarcely represented.
ASU researchers Kimberly Scott and Kevin Clark partnered with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in order to understand the void of African American influences in technology.
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Xconomy
Growing up in Boston, Steven Julien-Stewart witnessed the gentrification of the city's neighborhoods, although at the time he didn't fully understand what was happening — he just knew his neighbors were moving away.
"When you're younger, you're not thinking about things like rent increases," the 23-year-old says. "You just see friends disappear."
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Tech Crunch
"Would you mind having an off-the-record conversation about your questions? Is that Ok?" said the PR rep at a leading publicly listed technology company. "Err ... sure," I replied, more than a little puzzled.
The questions — which I put to Intel, Apple, Twitter, Facebook, Slack, Google, and Salesforce — were pretty straightforward. I simply wanted to know why none of the major technology companies in the U.S. (with the exception of LinkedIn) include disability in their public diversity reporting, and if they had plans to do so.
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Complex
It all started with one of those "There should be an app for that" moments. In 2014, longtime Grey's Anatomy co-star Jesse Williams and his wife Aryn Drakelee-Williams were chopping it up about the confounding lack of racial diversity of smart phone texting options. Shortly thereafter, they came up with an idea that would quickly evolve into a subversive, groundbreaking tech startup called Ebroji.
"Aryn was saying, 'Emojis are so popular. Why on earth would there only be pink-faced emojis?'" Williams, his gray eyes gleaming, recalls.
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The Daily Free Press
A balance between one's interests and professional career is key to bridging the difference between getting by and succeeding, according to one Boston-based startup entrepreneur.
For Melissa James, a former Google employee and the current CEO of professional development platform The Tech Connection, balance has been a guiding force throughout her career.
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The Fresno Bee
One of Fresno, California's, newest business CEOs describes her path from a rural farm-labor family through college and into a technology career as both "accidental" and "unlikely."
And that is something Irma Olguin Jr. wants to change for others growing up in similar circumstances.
Olguin, 36, was named as co-CEO of Bitwise Industries in downtown Fresno. Olguin co-founded Bitwise in 2013 and served as its chief technology officer.
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Fast Company
Are our children's future careers doomed to be replaced by robots and artificial intelligence? The short answer is no. The longer answer is of course not. And that's because humans have something no machine can yet embody: Empathy. And it's that distinctly human characteristic which is going to make the technology industry more diverse and successful in the future.
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