Challenge to tech companies: Join 10,000 Innovators Fund
Dear Google, Apple, Facebook, Twitter and other top technology companies: Over the past six months, many of you revealed that the percentage of underrepresented minority employees... Read More
Diversity Data Shows Need to Focus on Women of Color
The floodgates holding back the tech industry’s dismal diversity data are now wide open. First Google, then LinkedIn and Yahoo, and now Facebook have soaked Silicon... Read More
Lack of diversity could undercut Silicon Valley
PALO ALTO, Calif. — The technology industry’s predominantly white and Asian male workforce is in danger of losing touch with the diverse nation — and... Read More
Summer Programs Aim to Hack Tech’s Diversity Problem
Some kids spend their summer hanging by the pool. Others study up to solve the diversity problem in America’s tech industry. Across the country, summer programs are... Read More
Coding classes: Students, dogged teachers overcome obstacles to add computer science classes
The cradle of techno-innovation, the Bay Area has fallen as flat as the rest of the country in one critical area: nurturing the next generation... Read More
Bringing STEM Education to Underserved Communities
In California’s San Francisco Bay Area, a nonprofit foundation has raised the bar for local students, with impressive results. In the nearby Central Valley, a... Read More
Low-income teens design apps that reflect their neighborhoods
While parts of the Bay Area enjoy the benefits of the tech boom, little has changed in Maira Lopez’s world. The 17-year-old’s mom still insists... Read More
Former NAACP President Ben Jealous coming to Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley’s newest venture capitalist has social media experience – and a social justice background. Benjamin Jealous, the former NAACP president responsible for turning around the... Read More
Model View Culture talks to Dr. Jarvis Sulcer, Executive Director of the LPFI.
What is the Level Playing Field Institute? What are your goals and mission? The Level Playing Field Institute (LPFI) is a non-profit with headquarters in... Read More
To inspire tomorrow’s great female engineers, we need better toys today
While her friends dressed Barbie dolls, Lucy Sanders designed and constructed buildings with Lincoln Logs, Tinkertoys, and playing cards. She learned physics by playing with... Read More