Kickoff the year 2020 with Tech Intersections: Celebrating Womxn of Color in Technology, taking place at Mills College in Oakland, California, for its third year on Saturday, January 25, 2020 Our conference features ALL womxn of color in tech speakers for an all womxn of color audience. A sampling of our ~40 speakers includes: TiffaniContinue reading "Tech Intersections"
Celebrate Black History Month by volunteering as a special guest reader at an Oakland school! Students thrive when they see themselves and their classmates represented in the books that they read. Join in the city-wide appreciation of African American authors and illustrators from February 3 – 7, 2020 and sign up below: Sign up to read aloud!Continue reading "OUSD African-American Literature Read-In"
Beloved Oakland 2020 is a celebration that honors Oakland, CA's longstanding legacy of social justice. Hosted by Just Cities, Beloved Oakland will generate proceeds to fund initiatives and projects that aim to bring dignity to the unhoused and justice to the movement to end houselessness. Together, we will achieve the vision of Ron Dellums andContinue reading "Beloved Oakland 2020"
CBE Summit '20: Elevating Our Voices, Amplifying Our Impact Day 1: Thursday, February 20 - 2:30pm - 8:00pm Day 1 is CBE Connect, the Summit’s focus on business development. This day will consist of a Pitch Competition with cash prizes for winners, Legal Pitch Day where in-house counsel are provided an opportunity to be matchedContinue reading "CBE Summit 2020 & Code Black Gala"
The 3rd annual Black Joy Parade is here! Join us for the largest free, family-friendly event of its kind in California. A parade and festival to celebrate the black experience past, present and future. We invite you to come be present, be creative, be open and be free. The parade begins on 14th and Alice inContinue reading "Black Joy Parade"
****This event has been canceled**** An evening celebrating the stories of womxn in engineering. In honor of Women's History Month, we invite you to WomxnPowered Tech, an event for womxn engineers. The archetype of the white male software engineer too often reigns supreme. This event will elevate the stories of and highlight the specific challengesContinue reading "WomxnPowered Tech: Celebrating the stories of womxn in engineering (Canceled)"
The FLOSS and Code event is a hack day where attendees will get hands-on experience contributing to meaningful open source projects on GitHub. Companies of all sizes need open source software to run effectively and hiring managers at major technology companies have cited regularly that candidates with open source consistently experience stand out from theContinue reading "FLOSS and Code Oakland"
****This event has been canceled**** Register to join Ed Trust-West, Just Equations, Kapor Center, The Greater LA Education Foundation, and Californians Dedicated to Education Foundation for a convening on California's shortage of STEM teachers AND teachers of color on Thursday, March 19th, from 4:00 - 7:00 pm, at Los Angeles County Office of Education (9300Continue reading "Convening on California’s STEM Teacher & Teacher of Color Shortage (Canceled)"
This year marks the 11th Oakland Running Festival, which has been rescheduled to Sunday, August 30, 2020. It has been nationally recognized as the Bay Area race to run. Corrigan Sports makes the process easy from registration to race day, and the people of Oakland make you feel welcome from start to finish. Experience Oakland’sContinue reading "Oakland Running Festival"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbtVnqkz7Rg The tech industry has historically excluded women and many underrepresented people of color. How did we get here and how do we pivot?