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3 nonprofits committed to empowering women in tech

CIO Business Intelligence

While diversity still lags in the IT industry, McKinsey has found that organizations leading the way with DEI strategies are making significant gains over those that “have yet to embrace diversity.” She had access to a personal tutor, an industry mentor, and an Ada Developers Academy mentor. “I Here are three of note.

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Diversity-focused school Ada Developers Academy cuts 45% of staff amid tech industry hiring pullback

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(Jenny Crooks Photo) Ada Developers Academy , the Seattle-based tuition-free software development boot camp for women and underrepresented sexual, gender and racial minorities, laid off 45% of its workforce, the nonprofit confirmed to GeekWire Wednesday. Ada Developers Academy CEO Lauren Sato. A Washington, D.C.,

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Ada Developers Academy ‘significantly’ reduces headcount, pauses admissions, names interim CEO

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(Jenny Crooks Photo) Seattle-based Ada Developers Academy has conducted another round of layoffs and named a new interim leader, a month after CEO Lauren Sato resigned from the tuition-free software development boot camp for women and underrepresented sexual, gender and racial minorities.

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19 organizations advancing women in tech

CIO Business Intelligence

Ada Developers Academy is a nonprofit, cost-free coding school for women and gender expansive adults that also prioritizes BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, and low-income people. Participants also take part in a paid “applied learning internship” that teaches students how to write code and the skills to become a software developer.

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Ada Developers Academy going independent in hopes of expanding its tech diversity impact

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Ada Developers Academy graduates at a graduation event Jan. Ada Developers Academy , the Seattle-based tuition-free software development boot camp for women and underrepresented sexual, gender and racial minorities, is spinning out from its parent organization and going independent. Jenny Crooks Photo).

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Ada Developers Academy: A no-cost career program that aims to diversify IT

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Mariya Burrows wanted to make a career change to software development after taking an introductory course on the topic, but the last thing she wanted to do was take out more student loans. Ada Developers Academy, founded in 2013, is a nonprofit coding school for women and gender-expansive adults — and it’s completely free.

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Tech Moves: SoundCommerce vet launches startup; Microsoft Federal leader departs; and more

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She also worked at iLink Digital for nearly two years and helped run a software development services company. Other key personnel changes across the Pacific Northwest tech industry: — Jessica Boulanger , former head of executive communications at Amazon, joined the U.S. Chamber of Commerce as a SVP of communications.