From bilingual job boards to children's learning platforms, Latinx app developers are growing in number and the opportunities their platforms provide to an underrepresented community in tech.
As of 2021, there were an estimated 27 million developers around the world creating apps for mobile platforms. According to Apple Store editorial director Smokey Fontaine, small developers made up 90 percent of that number, a huge jump of 40 percent since 2015. But overall, just seven percent of all app developers were of Latinx descent.
Steven Wolfe Pereira, CEO and co-founder of Encantos, a curriculum-infused storytelling company aimed at teaching kids learning fundamentals, said he thinks tech has proved to be a great equalizer but it’s up to the Latinx community to keep pushing for inclusion. “One of the stories that sticks out is from a teenager who wrote in to say ‘Thank you,’” she said. “He wrote ‘Thanks to Chamba my dad was able to get a job and we were able to leave the Motel 6 we were living in.’ It still gives me the chills and it speaks to the impact that you can have on a community.”An Apple App Store Award winner in 2020, Caribu is an interactive video-calling platform that helps kids have virtual playdates with family and friends.
“We wanted to be sure to offer all those nursery rhymes we grew up with, so people can pass along their culture and make new memories,” Tuchman said. “One grandmother wrote in and told us that she started reading to her grandson during the pandemic and now he reads to her. They’ve made cards together, played tic tac toe and enjoyed ‘cave time’ throughout their separation.”Yana founder Andrea Campos has struggled with depression since she was 8 years old.
Jaramillo, now an Emmy-nominated director, illustrator, and storyteller said she wants to encourage creators to share authentic stories of their own.
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