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3 nonprofits committed to empowering women in tech

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A 2017 poll in the Pew Research Center report found that 50% of women said they had experienced gender discrimination at work , while only 19% of men said the same. During the six-month training portion, students commit full-time to learning full-stack software development, including skills such as Python, SQL, JavaScript, and React.

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GeekWire Awards 2021: Geeks Give Back celebrates groups that better our community

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Ada Developers Academy. Ada Developers Academy is a Seattle-based, tuition-free software development boot camp for women and underrepresented sexual, gender and racial minorities. The nonprofit program provides six months of classroom training followed by a five-month internship at one of its corporate partners.

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Tech Moves: RealSelf appoints interim CEO; Hootsuite hires new CFO; Tune CEO lands at Roku

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Tune CEO Peter Hamilton at the company’s 2017 Postback conference. He moved into an advisory role at Tune last year, following the Seattle marketing startup’s acquisition by Constellation Software. . Nderitu has served as a DEI consultant for nonprofits Doctors Without Borders and One Acre Fund.

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17 professional organizations for Black IT pros

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It was started in 2017 after its founder, Kelauni Jasmyn, noticed that, after graduating a coding bootcamp, she didn’t see many other software developers who “looked like her in the local tech scene.”

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Tech Moves: Leafly announces new board ahead of SPAC merger; Amazon vets depart; and more

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Blaise Judja-Sato , founder of Seattle-based global health nonprofit VillageReach. Peterson joined Tagboard in 2017 as VP of marketing. Sandler, the former CEO of Novas Software, joined OVF in 2010 as an investor. Lee was previously an engineering manager at Facebook in Seattle and also a software development manager at Amazon.

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Q&A: James Miles wants to boost Seattle’s creative economy — and tech mixes with art in the plan

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Tech workers make up a big chunk of those creatives, with OED listing software publishers as tops in creative industry earnings as of 2017. I think Seattle’s rife with a lot of creatives, from the nonprofit side to the for-profit side.” “It is a tech hub, and I’m excited for us to embrace that.

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List of the world’s top female futurists (Update #5)

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The following list provides a brief profile of 178 fabulous female futurists [up from 78 in the original list of September 2015, 143 in the update of November 2015, 158 in January 2018, 167 in February 2017, and 178 in the 2018 revision]. She is the 2017/2018 European Union Visiting Fellow at the University of Oxford, St.

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