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Code2040: As Seen on PBS x Origins
The transgender inventor, Lynn Conway, is largely to thank for the device you’re using right now. But you might not know her name, because the contributions made by women, BIPOC and the LGBTQ+ community in the tech industry have long been dismissed – sometimes even erased. This phenomenon has been dubbed the "Conway Effect" by Lynn Conway, the late transgender microchip genius whose inventions forever changed our world. What exactly is the Conway Effect? And what does it say about our culture?
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Why Kamala Harris and the Illusion of representation fails Black America
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Teach Must Embrace Racial Justice in the Wake of Affirmative Action
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Racial Equity in not a trend: Breaking Away from Big Tech’s Boom and Bust DEI Cycle
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When Racial Equity Efforts Are Under Attack, Community Is Our Guiding Star
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Tech Industry Layoffs May Undo Workforce Diversity Gains
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Tech Companies are going to Mars, there's no excuse for their lack of diversity.
Kate Davis talks to Mimi Fox Melton, acting CEO of Code 2040, about how white privilege manifests in the work place and tone policing.
Microsoft’s Connected & Ready Podcast interviews Code2040’s CEO
Mimi Fox Melton discusses Code2040’s efforts to redesign work cultures and spaces to be more equitable for Black and Latinx tech workers, how the organization has managed the challenges of the pandemic (including retooling their internship program), remote and onsite work practices, company benefit policies, and how companies can identify systemic problems and direct their missions toward improving equity.
2024
Tech bros funded Trump’s return. This is how we can fight back. — Reckon
Tech Must Embrace Racial Equity in the Wake of Affirmative Action — YES! Magazine
Why Kamala Harris and the Illusion of representation fails Black America — Reckon
What's the Conway Effect and What Does It Say About Tech? — PBS Origins
2023
Racial Equity is not a trend: breaking away from Big Tech’s boom and bust DEI cycle — Fast Company
2022
Tech Industry Layoffs May Undo Workforce Diversity Gains — WIRED
2021
Choosing to be a ‘nonpolitical’ company means choosing to be anti-Black — Fast Company
Tech companies are going to Mars. There’s no excuse for their lack of diversity. — Fast Company
Black in Tech: Can Silicon Valley Change?— Fast Company
Code2040 Appoints Mimi Fox Melton as CEO — Press Release
If you want a truly equitable workplace, you must get over fear of conflict — Fast Company
White supremacy is the original algorithm: Why Code2040’s new CEO wants to debug Silicon Valley — Protocol
White privilege, professional bias, and tone policing at work — Fast Company
Bias, Disrespect, and Demotions: Black employees say Amazon has a race problem — Vox
Building a more equitable workplace — Connected and Ready Podcast
How to do blind recruiting for developers — BuiltIn
The Trump Business Backlash: Corporate Woke-Washing — Al Jazeera
Google’s Approach to HBCUs— The Washington Post
Should the professional be political? — The Atlantic
2020
Silicon Valley is famously liberal. Then investors and employees started clashing over race. — The Washington Post
'All You Want Is to Be Believed': The Impacts of Unconscious Bias in Health Care — KQED
How to rebuild companies for the next generation of Black and Latinx technologists — Protocol
Workplace Diversity Will Need a Lot of Work, Says Code2040 CEO — Bloomberg
10 Black Womxn Activists You Should Know — The Riveter
Black Lives Matter: How the Tech Community Can Provide Support — The New Stack
Dear tech industry: Protesting is important, but it’s not enough — Fast Company
George Floyd protests lead to reckoning as Black employees speak out on racism and discrimination in the workplace — USA Today
Silicon Valley's Black Employees Question Corporate Claims That Black Lives Matter — KQED
2019
Build Tech We Trust: It’s time to hold the tech industry accountable for its role in the rise of white supremacy. Along with a collective of prominent tech leaders and activists called Build Tech We Trust, Code2040 CEO Karla Monterroso signed a letter on Tuesday, August 13, 2019, demanding that the tech industry stop the spread of hate and terrorism on digital platforms. We invite you to demand that we build tech we can trust.
After the El Paso and Gilroy shootings, tech leaders are saying platforms must stop amplifying hate speech — Vox/Recode
Tech leaders condemn tech’s role in elevating white supremacy — TechCrunch
These CEOs say Big Tech should take responsibility for spreading white supremacist terrorism — Fast Company
The future of diversity and inclusion in tech: Where the industry needs to go from here — TechCrunch
The Technology 202: Silicon Valley's diversity advocates welcome Elizabeth Warren's latest plan — Washington Post
5 Influential Latina Women Disrupting the Tech Industry — Fullstack Academy
2018
Code2040’s Karla Monterroso on desegregating the tech industry — TechCrunch
Here’s the clearest picture of Silicon Valley’s diversity yet: It’s bad. But some companies are doing less bad — Reveal
This entrepreneur wants to make the 'ethnic' beauty aisle a thing of the past — CNN Money
The Trump administration is making it harder for some Bay Area nonprofits to raise money, and here's how they're addressing it — San Francisco Business Times
A national report shows blacks and Hispanics haven’t made big gains when it comes to equality — Marketplace
Code2040: Combatting Tech’s Diversity Problem — NPR Latino USA
Data Sheet—Why Big Tech Will Dominate Policy Debates for Decades — Fortune
5 Major Tech Companies Committed to Gender Equality — The Hard Refresh
The language of the workplace — Increment
How Slack Got Ahead in Diversity — The Atlantic
Women-in-Tech Narrative Aims to Empower and Inspire — Business 2 Community
Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield details approach to sustaining an inclusive workforce — TechCrunch
Laura Weidman Powers Stepping Down As CEO of Code2040 — Black Enterprise
General Assembly purchased by Adecco Group — New York Business Journal
2017
Laura Weidman Powers is closing the employment gap for minorities in tech by the year 2040 — Recode
Code2040 just raised $5.6 million to help save Silicon Valley from itself — Fast Company
Code2040 is launching its flagship program in NYC — TechCrunch
Announcing TC Sessions: Justice, a day-long event about diversity, inclusion & activism — TechCrunch
The US says Oracle is encouraging Indians to hire other Indians—and it’s killing diversity — Quartz
2016
10 Female Founders That Need to Be on Your Radar — TechCo
Tech Companies Try to Fight Unconscious Bias in Hiring by Making Job Candidates Fight Coding Bots — Nextgov
13 Black Founders Making Moves in Tech — TechCo
Why GitHub hopes its low diversity numbers can drive change — CNET
Why This Tech Startup Powerhouse Is Now Taking on the White House — Fortune
Rev. Jesse Jackson says Apple is ‘setting the pace’ around diversity and inclusion — TechCrunch
How do you solve Silicon Valley's diversity problem? One nonprofit is starting with internships — CNET
EA creates Play to Give charity campaign with $1 million donation — VentureBeat
Weak Ties Matter — TechCrunch
Intel CEO says leadership team has received threats for company’s stance on diversity — TechCrunch
Jack Dorsey Admits To Twitter’s Diversity Problem To Room Of Black Engineers — International Business Times
Computer programmer: one of the largest gender wage gaps among all professions — Silicon Beat
Intel Invests $1.3 Million In CODE2040 — TechCrunch
Why the Founders of Code2040 Are Changing the Face of Silicon Valley — Fortune
"Change is hard and change is slow. But I think we’re on the right track.” CODE2040’s Laura Weidman Powers on Diversity in Tech — Hunter Walk
CODE2040 CEO Calls For More Transparency, Accountability And Cultural Changes In Tech — TechCrunch
Meet The People Vying For The First-Ever Diversity Crunchie Award — TechCrunch
Paradigm CEO Joelle Emerson On Why Talk Of “Lowering The Bar” Is Inherently Racist — TechCrunch
Intel Isn't Diverse Enough. And It Knows — Wired
Seahawks lineman Russell Okung responds to Paul Graham’s essay on economic inequality and startups —
2015
Apple Will Start Offering Paid Internships To CODE2040 Fellows — TechCrunch