'I was one of the very few brown people in the room.'
One place many companies look for new talent is tech meetups, casual networking events where people go to hear updates on industry trends and connect with collaborators. Those meetups can look similar to the tech world itself — skewing white and male. That’s what Andy Saldaña found when he attended his first such event. Saldaña went on to become executive director of the nonprofit, New York Tech Alliance.
I don’t think that there’s going to be a magic level that we hit of equity among everybody. There’s always going to be somebody who’s underrepresented. I think the conversation that we’re having now is getting us to a point where we are understanding the concepts and the thinking behind it, of what it means. What does inclusivity mean? What does diversity really mean? Can you have it without equity? What does equity mean? I think that we’re asking these questions right now.
Networking is hard. And if the whole idea of going to one of these meetups makes you want to crawl into bed, check out the “
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