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" 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. "

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" Few of my classmates looked like me. While we shared similar aspirations and many good times, there's much to be said for making any challenging journey with people of the same cultural background. "

Kimberly Bryant

People

Good Times

" When you've already experienced great challenges in your career, it gives minor setbacks a different perspective. "

" We need to have women as role models, both inside and outside corporate America's leading tech companies, leading the path for other women. "

" We want to see companies making a good faith effort and putting some tangible initiatives behind their pledge for diversity. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I don't think that the trickle-down theory of diversity ever really works. "

" 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. "

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

" If I understood the great opportunities that are available to women and underrepresented minorities in the field of tech I would have made the transition from traditional engineering to the technology field much earlier in my career. "

" I think my biggest mistake was deciding not to go to law school directly after I graduated from college. "

Kimberly Bryant

College

Law

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

" 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 definitely think there needs to be more of a focus and movement on getting coding taught in schools. There's really only so much after-school programs like Black Girls Code can do to really drive that change. And those classes shouldn't only take place in high school. We should make sure that we teach kids about coding at an early age. "

" I didn't want my daughter to feel culturally isolated in the pursuit of her studies as I had as a young girl. I didn't want her to give up on her passions just because she didn't see anyone else like her in the classroom. "

" I had been tracked from grades 1 through 12 in an accelerated program in the public school system in Memphis and had done well in math and science classes. When I was getting ready for college, my guidance counselors suggested I look into engineering. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I loved school, was an exceptional student, and found a passion for math and science that led me to Vanderbilt University, where I discovered the world of electrical engineering. I did well in college, loved the work I was doing, and soon found myself climbing the corporate ladder after graduation. I was one of the lucky ones. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" If people are not tied to the work from a mission-driven focus, I don't think you're going to motivate them. "

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

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

" If technology is designed mostly by white males, who make up roughly half our population, we're missing out on the innovation, solutions, and creativity that a broader pool of talent can bring to the table. "

" 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. "

" Gender is not central to coding. "

" 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