![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The mission of Black Girls Code is to reach out to minority girls age 7 to 17 from all socioeconomic levels, and teach them about computer technology-from creating websites and writing computer applications to crafting computer games and working in robotics. ![]() She didn’t know at that moment what she was going to do about it-but she did know she could no longer stand by while the problem festered.Ī year later she took a leap of faith and founded the nonprofit organization Black Girls Code. “Twenty-plus years after I received my engineering degree, we’re still complaining that we can’t find women to fill these roles. “This is not acceptable,” Bryant, BE’89, thought to herself. Suddenly, she’d had enough.Īs she listened to panelist after panelist repeat the same old kvetch about how the technology industry is dominated by men because there aren’t enough women out there to fill positions, something clicked. Dubois DIANE CHRISTINA, īack in 2010, Kimberly Bryant, an executive working for a large biotech company in the corporate ecosphere of Silicon Valley, was attending a conference on women and leadership. ![]()
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