Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" I don't think quotas are necessarily an evil. I think when we look at industry in general back to the '60s and the '50s, the way more diverse people like my dad and mom's generation were able to break into industry was because of affirmation action, because of quotas. "

Kimberly Bryant

Mom

Think

People

Related Quotes:

" We want to teach girls of color the skills they need and create a diversity of voices into the tech community. "

" Although we use a lot of technology and consume a lot of technology as people of color, we're usually not the ones at the tables doing the creating of it. "

" Women and girls are naturally agents of change. If we teach one girl to code, she will go on to teach more - we've seen this in our own programs and workshops around the country. "

" We really pride ourselves on the notion that what makes our program special is that we really do our very best to make sure that everything we do is culturally responsive and relevant. "

" I do believe that most startups who develop applications and digital products design 'towards the middle.' By this, I mean they design their products to reach the broadest consumer base possible, which is a sound strategy in some respects. "

" I had originally wanted to be a lawyer. Even when I went to college and majored in engineering, I still thought I'd get a law degree. Then I started taking electrical engineering classes where I saw some of the innovation happening around computers and solid-state technology in the mid '80s. "

" You can absolutely be what you can't see! That's what innovators and disruptors do. "

" We understand bringing girls into the tech space is about giving them skills to create social impact and change in their community. "

" I believe it is incredibly important for women and people of color to become the builders and creators in technology. In order to do so, we need to know how to code or, at least, know the language of coding - what I like to call 'code speak.' "

" For me, if a company is really committed to diversity, that means everything. That means gender diversity, that means sexual orientation for me, that means race, ethnicity. "

Kimberly Bryant

Company

Gender

" I'm looking to see more women of color not only in companies in technology, but also creating companies. "

" It's always been my dream to be an attorney, and I'm that weird breed of human being that loves being in a courtroom. "

" By reaching out to the community through workshops, hackathons, and after-school programs, Black Girls Code introduces computer programming and technology to girls from underrepresented communities. "

" Jobs in technology have the rapidest rate of growth. The need for computer science is so incredibly large, and it's important that girls of all colors have the opportunity to move into that field. "

" I hope to literally change the world with Black Girls Code by changing the paradigm which produces the current monolithic ecosystem in technology. "

" Some of the perceptions from my professors were that I was less than or that I wouldn't be able to compete or wouldn't be able to meet the same bar as my peers. I don't want that for my daughter or for any of the girls who come into our program. "

" We're creating this new breed of techies who are going to be the ones starting the tech companies of the future. "

" Our goal is to really have young women of color embrace the tech marketplace and the tech innovation space as both leaders and creators. "

" As a little girl growing up in the Deep South, my mother told me that my future lay in my education. And she was right. "

" I grew up in a close-knit community where I was expected to excel, and it was a different experience when I got to the university. There were very few students of color, and those numbers were extremely low in the school of engineering. "

" We like to say we hope to be like the Girl Scouts of technology, having many different chapters in many different states as well as many different countries. "

Kimberly Bryant

Girl

Hope

" Gender is not central to coding. "

" Girls are almost always socialized to be perfect: 'Smile, do well in school, don't take too many risks.' "

" Technology can be biased in how it's developed if coders aren't careful. There are apps that are clearly made by companies with no people of color on their team. "

" Women are both talented and innovative thinkers and tend to use computer science as a tool to solve larger problems. "

" Our camps and workshops offer a space where girls of color can learn computer science and coding principles alongside their peers, with mentorship from female role models who have established themselves in tech fields where women, and minority women in particular, tend to be underrepresented. "

" We need to really focus on getting this digital equity across the board in all of our public school systems, for both girls and boys. "

" We are not generally included in that narrative - people of color - definitely, women of color don't normally fit that narrative that has been built around the whole image and the whole story of the Silicon Valley. "

" There's not enough said about the beauty of being able to focus on what you do well. "

" I was doing a lot of networking in the Valley, and I found that it was not a very diverse environment, and most of the conferences and meetup events I went to, there weren't many women or people of color in those rooms. "