Diversity Sauce

The weekly spotlight highlights the outcome of a recent Red Bull Hackathon (1:48) and what the winning team looked like as well as a better way for business to think about Diversity based on recent research (4:35)

This week we highlight an article from the Atlantic on how white males have to take the lead on diversity in the workplace (1:50). Then, an awesome conversation with TinyBop Founder and CEO Raul Gutierrez (6:11) about how TinyBop came to be, the importance of "weirdness" (15:00), "designing for quiet" (17:20), how diversity at TinyBop shapes the product (27:00), how they continue to improve (32:00) what the future holds (37:15).

Diversity In Apps Weekly Spotlight Episode 3 by Diversity Sauce

Welcome to Episode 2 with our first guest Briana Pressey from the Joan Ganz Cooney Center. We start by discussing two articles from our newsletter, one from the Guardian about how books about girls can be read by boys (http://bit.ly/1S5pUP8) and another about Warner Brothers plans for a fellowship program for aspiring filmmakers (http://bit.ly/1prjr6l).

Then we are joined by our first ever guest Briana Pressey (7:55) who gives us some background on the Cooney Center as well as the great work she has been doing as part of a research on designing for diverse families and how she became interested in Diversity in Apps. The link for the guidelines Briana mentioned is here (http://www.joanganzcooneycenter.org/2015/10/30/designing-for-diverse-families/)

Welcome to first podcast! We begin with a little about Diversity In Apps and our strategy going forward. Next we, discuss two of our articles from this week's newsletter as well as share our updates on the creation of our guidelines for content producers.

This podcast is an open forum for anyone in the industry focusing on diversity and inclusion. Please feel free to reach out to us to share you product, research or cause! [email protected]