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Kim is taking some much needed time off, so enjoy this presentation from the 2019 Write/Speak/Code Conference Additional Resources Presentation Slides Presentation Video Transcription 00:30 Moderator: Please welcome to the stage our next keynote speaker, Kim Crayton! [Applause] Kim Crayton: White people, you’re gonna have a hard time with this today. My job is to […]

“Really it’s a cult. They prey on the people who don’t know, who are the weakestWho are going through the hardest time and I met a lot of people going through really, really hard time…everybody’s going through their pain or their hurt. And it just seems like Lambda is the hope for them. […]

“My mom said, ‘Be happy you have a job, if they just tell you to clean up just do it. And I was like Mom you’re missing the point: nobody else is cleaning up after someone else’s dog. Nobody else in this company has cleaned up someone else’s shit.” Ahlaya Reed is an […]

“And it’s also one of these put up or shut up moments where you like ‘care so much about this’ but here we are in this situation where the company you’re at right now isn’t doing enough, isn’t aligning with your values. And we’re trying to put lipstick on a pig and make […]

Kim is taking some much needed time off, so enjoy this presentation from the 2018 View Source  Conference Additional Resources Presentation Slides Presentation Video Transcription 00:39 Kim Crayton: Yeah! Woo! Alright, you stop when I tell you to stop! [Audience laughs] You don’t stop when you wanna stop. Hello. This is [Kim laughs] “Stop […]

Podcast Description Kim is taking some much needed time off, so enjoy this presentation from the 2018 View Source  Conference Additional Resources Presentation Slides Presentation Video Transcription 00:39 Kim Crayton: Yeah! Woo! Alright, you stop when I tell you to stop! [Audience laughs] You don’t stop when you wanna stop. Hello. This is [Kim laughs] “Stop […]

Kim is taking some much needed time off, so enjoy this keynote presentation from the 2018 Black’s In Technology  Conference. Additional Resources Presentation Slides Presentation Video Transcription 00:30 Announcer: We saw her last night. And, when I say she lit the place up, you can tell when someone has a certain spirit, when […]

Kim is taking some much needed time off, so enjoy this keynote presentation from the 2017 Nodevember conference. Since technology now literately touches almost everyone and it is no longer the playground of just a few, it isn’t economically prudent to build products and services that don’t reflect the needs and desires of […]

“I think if we don’t fix the institutions people can apologize all they want, but the problem will remain. And so that’s why antiracism is important, but so is thinking about how antiracism can be a structural change in addition to making people individually more aware of the problem.” Jonathan M. Metzl is […]

Podcast Description “I think if we don’t fix the institutions people can apologize all they want, but the problem will remain. And so that’s why antiracism is important, but so is thinking about how antiracism can be a structural change in addition to making people individually more aware of the problem.” Jonathan M. Metzl is […]