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Diversity Digest: March 25, 2016

Black Woman Engineer Launches ‘Blind’ Job Match App To Take Bias Out Of Tech Hiring

Forbes | Clare O’Connor | March 3

http://www.forbes.com/sites/clareoconnor/2016/03/03/black-woman-engineer-launches-blind-job-match-app-to-take-bias-out-of-tech-hiring/#428b251c601c

 

Heads up, female coders: Seattle startup Tune accepting applications for UW house

GeekWire | ADELINE VUONG | March 1

http://www.geekwire.com/2016/233985/

Being Black In The Tech Industry

NPR | Aaron Saunders | Feb. 28

http://www.npr.org/2016/02/28/468483901/being-black-in-the-tech-industry

 

What It’s Really Like to Risk It All in Silicon Valley

New York Times | Claire Cane Miller | Feb. 27

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/28/upshot/what-its-really-like-to-risk-it-all-in-silicon-valley.html

 

We must civilize the tech bros, for the good of humanity

Crosscut | Drew Atkins | March 2016

 

http://features.crosscut.com/the-tech-bros-must-be-civilized

 

Trish Dziko is fighting inequality in tech, one student at a time

Crosscut | Cambria Roth | Feb 29

 

http://crosscut.com/2016/02/trish-dziko-is-fighting-inequality-in-tech-one-student-at-a-time/

 

Microsoft’s ‘Chief People Person’ speaks on tech’s diversity problems

Crosscut | Samantha Larson | March 2016

 

http://features.crosscut.com/microsofts-chief-people-person-speaks-on-techs-diversity-problems

 

Why Tech Degrees Are Not Putting More Blacks and Hispanics Into Tech Jobs

New York Times | QUOCTRUNG BUI and CLAIRE CAIN MILLER | Feb 25

 

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/02/26/upshot/dont-blame-recruiting-pipeline-for-lack-of-diversity-in-tech.html

 

Can Computer Programs Be Racist And Sexist?

NPR | Laura Sydell | March 15

 

http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2016/03/15/470422089/can-computer-programs-be-racist-and-sexist

 

Why Minority Applicants Scrape Race From Their Résumés

 

Bloomberg Business | Sarah Grant | March 17

 

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-03-17/why-minority-applicants-scrape-race-from-their-r-sum-s

What It Will Take to Make the Tech Industry More Diverse

Harvard Business Review | Susan Colby, Helen Ma, Kelsey Robinson, and Lareina Yee | March 15

 

https://hbr.org/2016/03/315-global-digital-ic-diversifying-the-tech-industrys-talent-pipeline

 

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  • Julie Pham

    Julie Pham is the Vice President of Community Engagement and Marketing at WTIA, where she helps fulfill Washington’s potential to become home to the world’s greatest tech industry.

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