Originally posted on August 19, 2018 I will begin this post as I begin each talk, with a list of my credentials because there’s always somebody who needs to see this to understand that I am not an “angry black women”, but rather an informed one. As I sat back,…
As someone who has championed the need for uncomfortable conversations about inclusion and diversity in tech, I am still trying to process my thoughts and I must say that I’m feeling some kind of way about this. Black women have been the backbone of this nation since slavery, with…
We will never change how tech does business until we change how we redefine technical. I have completed many CFPs over the past year and a half and it is only recently, as I dive deeper into the issues of inclusion and diversity in tech, that I now question a…
There are many reasons that businesses succeed or fail but in an Information Age economy, one looms bright. The reason organizations like Amazon and Walmart are so successful is how their leaders have built their businesses. These leaders value processes over products or services, which is a completely different approach…
Yes, I’m known for working on issues of inclusion, diversity, and safe spaces in tech but let’s be honest, this work is reactionary. It focuses on the effect and rarely the cause, which is that these issues and others that do damage to a business’s reputation and bottomline, are symptoms…
I have spent the last year and a half, traveling the world talking to groups of various sizes about the need for improving the health of our technology cultures and communities. I’ve talked about the need for and strategies for mentoring. I’ve encouraged individuals from underrepresented groups to share their…
Organizational culture is often an under-appreciated and mismanaged organizational asset. Culture can be defined as how individuals within a bounded system, usually an organization, supply chain or affinity group, interact with each other. Community is how well those bounded systems i.e. cultures, come together to create unbounded systems. Organizational culture is not something…
My friend Gregor recently posted: Here’s his response when I asked him to explain: I AGREE COMPLETELY! It’s not hard today to find conflict, disharmony, and blatant disrespect. Actually, it often feels like it’s EVERYWHERE but it needn’t be. Tech, if for no other reason than economic, is beginning to understand that…
When you’re new to coding, Stack Overflow can be a scary place. It’s an amazing resource for newbies. But it’s also a place where bullies troll for new victims. With the hundreds of thousands of unfilled programming jobs out there, and the need for more diversity in the field, you’d think…
I knew that once this film was made available to the masses that I would start receiving calls and texts from my nontechie network about not only how great it is BUT more importantly…now what? For the past two-years, my friends and family have heard little else from me outside…
