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Saturday, March 8 • 11:45am - 12:00pm
The Real Reasons Why There Are Few Blacks in Tech

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You can’t innovate without diversity. Period. Yet most of the proposed solutions to increasing diversity in tech involve people of color moving to Silicon Valley (leaving their social and supports networks) or exposing black youth to coding (who then go back to techless homes and schools). So, what’s the solution? In this thought provoking presentation, learn about the very real cultural, technological, and historical barriers to increasing the number of blacks in tech and how digitalundivided is directly addressing those barriers.

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Kathryn Finney

Managing DirdigitalundividedIn 2003, when Yale grad Kathryn Finney founded one of the first fashion blogs, The Budget Fashionista, she had no idea that she was starting a movement. Kathryn grew the TBF brand to be one of the most popular and influential fashion blogs, reaching a global... Read More →


Saturday March 8, 2014 11:45am - 12:00pm CST
Austin Convention Center, Ballroom E
  Interactive, Future15

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