Lili Gangas: Your Journey is Your Secret Sauce

Today, Latinos comprise just 6% of technical roles across the largest U.S.-based tech companies. Look to executive roles, and the percentage becomes even less. Lili Gangas, Chief Technology Community Officer at Kapor Foundation, is determined to increase both percentages. On this episode of the American Dream podcast, Lili shares how she became interested in technology, why she believes diversity drives innovation, and the key areas in which Kapor Foundation is focused to drive change. (2:49) Lili in Bolivia (4:36) Elias returns to Nicaragua (8:34) Lili studies engineering (10:54) The stats: Latinos in the tech workplace (and the need for more!) (14:40) What is Kapor? (16:49) Is the lack of diversity in tech a policy problem? (19:31) The level at which Kapor Center is involved with policy (24:46) The power of technology to drive change (35:00) Lili’s call-to-action Read Kapor Foundation's Tech Ecosystem report:

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Lili Gangas: Your Journey is Your Secret Sauce is an episode from The American Dream with Elias Torres by Drift.

This episode is 47:24 long.

This episode was published on Mar 4, 2025.

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