Black Girls Can CODE

Inspired to create an organization that focuses on positive social change, Kimberly founded Black Girls CODE , a non-profit that teaches young girls from underrepresented communities computer programming. Her mission is to provide African-American youth with the skills to occupy some of the 1.4 million computing job openings expected to be available in the U.S. by 2020, and to train 1 million girls by 2040. So far, so good. Since 2011, Black Girls CODE, with the support of organizations such as ThoughtWorks, General Motors, and Lyft has reached more than 3,000 students. And they're just getting started. On This Episode You'll hear what led Kimberly to launch Black Girls CODE Why she believes the pipeline is not "the" problem preventing companies from hiring diverse talent Why she has hope for the future Read the complete show notes here

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Black Girls Can CODE is an episode from The Manila Folder by KC Jorgensen.

This episode is 38:49 long.

This episode was published on Mar 20, 2018.

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