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Glassbreakers is sponsoring a once in a lifetime trip to D.C. for a pair of youth activists to join the March for our Lives. If your community has been impacted by gun violence we want to amplify your voice. Apply now. Details here:

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Glassbreakers wants to send a pair of youth activists to Washington, D.C. to join their peers at the March for our Lives demonstration. Every voice matters. Please share to help us spread the word!

Glassbreakers Sponsorship: March For Our Lives D.C. Trip The Parkland High School shooting is a wake-up call. It’s a wake-up call that we can change the things that we must not accept. Gun…

If you don’t understand why tech has a diversity problem, you won’t be able to understand how to fix it. The Kapor Center recently launched: http://www.LeakyTechPipeline.com, a new website tool that provides a framework to understand the problem and gives comprehensive solutions. These resources synthesize social science research and data on the barriers facing underrepresented groups in computing education, degree completion, the tech workforce, and tech entrepreneurship/VC.

These resources are intended to be used by multiple stakeholders (including tech industry leaders, diversity & inclusion practitioners, government, policymakers, philanthropy, and non-profits) to develop comprehensive and collaborative solutions that will move the needle on increasing diversity in tech--and realizing the full potential of individuals from all backgrounds to contribute to technological innovation.

Check it out and download the report for more information.

The Leaky Tech Pipeline

Makeup artist Ruby Allegra is changing how people with disabilities are represented.

Makeup Artist Ruby Allegra Is Changing How People With Disabilities Are Represented Growing up in Adelaide, Australia, Ruby Allegra never really saw someone who looked like them — that is, someone who has a disability that prohibits them from walking, and therefore they use a powered wheelchair — represented in film or TV or any ot…

Diversity doesn’t stick without inclusion.

Diversity Doesn’t Stick Without Inclusion The latter is harder to measure but just as important.

Diversity in business boosts innovation, read new study here:

Diversity in business really does boost innovation, according to a new study A new study reveals what many people have known all along—diversity in the workplace is good for innovation. Researchers at NC State’s Poole College of Management Gender looked at the hiring policies of the 3,000 largest publicly traded companies in the United States to see if companies with a d...

Ellen Pao on Silicon Valley in 2017: ‘It does take a village for change to happen’

Ellen Pao on Silicon Valley in 2017: ‘It does take a village for change to happen’ Silicon Valley is more in check now than it has ever been, and that’s a good thing. With sexual harassment allegations swarming across the tech industry, female VCs coming together to support…

Modeling agency aims to tackle misrepresentation of people with disabilities. http://ow.ly/roTG30hnXKQ

Meet the future of technology — they’re 15 and they already know how to code via GOOD

Meet The Future Of Technology — They’re 15 And They Already Know How To Code | GOOD Is the next Bill Gates in your local high school?