The prevailing narrative surrounding minorities in tech relates to how beneficial employing minorities can be for a company and/or how detrimental the lack of diverse perspectives can be. I’ve searched for, and have been disappointed to find that few st...
This post is inspired by opensource.com themed weeks. In January there was a theme of “Open Source Careers” for which I never got organized enough to write my story. I recently found my draft and did not find it totally horrible. I think t...
Mamie Parker, a former assistant director of fisheries and habitat conservation at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, was the first African-American to head a regional office for that agency. But when she started out in the field, she says, she “di...
“And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.“ Above is my favorite quote. I repeated it to myself on a daily basis. It’s the belief that guides everything we do at digitalundivided (DID), the comp...
For more than 15 years, one role at Amazon has stood out as perhaps the most coveted: Jeff Bezos’s “shadow,” who acts as an adviser to the CEO, sitting by his side in daily meetings and serving as a sounding board on big decisions. But, as the years...
KPMG just released their Women’s Leadership Study which found that while the majority of women want to hold leadership positions many find it difficult to envision themselves as leaders. According to their survey of more than 3,000 professional and ...