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Deena Pierott works hard for underrepresented youth in STEM, but funding her nonprofit isn’t easy

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iUrban Teen founder Deena Pierott, left, received some funding for her nonprofit from Seattle Seahawks player Bobby Wagner, right. The two are pictured with sister and brother Amiya and Clay Brasley, who both attended iUrban Teen programs. “They’re paying them that money to create inclusive programming,” Pierott said.

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Tech Moves: Microsoft Teams CVP joins UiPath; Sage Bionetworks names president; and more

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He began as a product manager and from 2005 to 2008 served as a technical advisor to Satya Nadella, who was then a senior vice president and is now Microsoft CEO and chairman. — Seattle biomedical research nonprofit Sage Bionetworks appointed Luca Foschini as president.

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Ukrainian delegation visits Seattle to learn about its life sciences cluster and plan for the future

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These include the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation and the UW’s International Training and Education Center for Health, which supports Ukraine in providing services for people with HIV. Ukrainian delegates to Seattle at a visit to the Space Needle.

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Entrepreneurs and corporate leaders unite in support of Black-owned businesses

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This month, nearly 60 business and nonprofit leaders from the Northwest — such as Microsoft, Boeing, Expedia, Nintendo, Zillow, Vulcan, PATH and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation — signed on to a new coalition called Washington Employers for Racial Equity. Those pledging to do so include Intuit, Zoom and Slack.

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LinkedIn and Year Up partner for a more diverse IT future

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LinkedIn is one such company giving IT pros an opportunity to make a difference as part of a longstanding partnership with job training nonprofit Year Up, which began in 2011 when LinkedIn’s first CEO, Jeff Weiner, saw the value in working with the Year Up to open the talent pipeline and to give back.

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IT leaders turn to HBCUs for future IT talent

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Meanwhile, the 2022 State of Tech Diversity: The Black Tech Ecosystem report from the NAACP and Kapor Center, a nonprofit addressing racial inequities in STEM education and the tech industry, found that the proportion of Black students receiving bachelor’s degrees in computer science decreased between 2016 and 2020, going from 9% to 8%.

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

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She is currently based in Boston and the co-founder of science education non-profit Full STEAM Forward. Nderitu has served as a DEI consultant for nonprofits Doctors Without Borders and One Acre Fund. Figliolia was previously based in Shanghai where she held senior roles at software companies PTC and Autodesk. Fabric Photo). —