“Everything in tech is incremental, whether you’re building an app, you’re doing agile, you’re starting with something. You’re starting with an MVP and you’re incrementing on that. If you take that approach to learning you get away from this gatekeeper idea of you’ve got “it” or you don’t have “it”… you start where you’re at […]

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“And now some of you sit looking at me and now you feel uncomfortable. But today you have heard me. You can not unsee me. In this space I belong we belong here, in this space.”   Hannah L Drake is a blogger, activist, public speaker, poet, and the author of 9 books. She writes commentary […]

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“The larger point is that experience at-scale does change culture, because experience at-scale IS culture.” Kate O’Neill is founder and Chief Tech Humanist of KO Insights, a thought leadership and advisory firm helping companies, organizations, and cities make future-aligned meaningful decisions based on human behavior and data. A prolific writer and author, her fourth book […]

“The problem isn’t Jewishness or Jews. The problem is when Jews start to act like and live as and be a part of the power of whiteness. And therefore get the power to move the levers of white supremacy in their favor.” Professor Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy and Core Faculty Member in […]

“Whiteness positions itself as the the light of reason. That’s the colonial idea…it see’s itself as bringing technology, bringing enlightened thought, ya know The Enlightenment to all of us. And when you have discussion with people from that position…you are not perceived as logical. I can’t have that conversation. I refuse to have it. All […]

“It’s scary. It’s terrifying. Because it’s not just in the abstract we know that cis people that seem like allies could turn on us at any moment. It’s that it actually happens on a pretty regular basis. That we don’t perform trans-ness right and then we’re not women any more to them, or men, or […]

“Right now we need to focus on the people who are experiencing the most harm, people who are in the most danger. And because of the social racial hierarchy of white supremacy, [white people] are used to being taken care of first. And everybody else…it doesn’t matter.” Tori Williams Douglass is a writer, student, anti-racism […]

“I feel that tech is capable of change. It’s still a relatively young sector. The young men who built this industry…tended to be people who themselves were not treated that well at high school. Ya know, nerds shall inherit the Earth. When you point out to some of them that they are now oppressing other […]