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" There's not enough said about the beauty of being able to focus on what you do well. "
Kimberly Bryant
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Beauty
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" 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. "
Kimberly Bryant
Focus
School
Think
" I'm horrendous at capturing a decent selfie. "
Kimberly Bryant
Horrendous
Capturing
Decent
" It's critical for girls to see role models like myself that are in technical fields. Looking for ways to come in as speakers or do a career day, or just find a way to connect with students or invite students to their workplaces to shadow them for the day... is critically important. "
Kimberly Bryant
Looking
Myself
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" 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. "
Kimberly Bryant
Great
Women
Technology
" 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.' "
Kimberly Bryant
Technology
Color
People
" We want to teach girls of color the skills they need and create a diversity of voices into the tech community. "
Kimberly Bryant
Community
Create
Color
" Gender is not central to coding. "
Kimberly Bryant
Coding
Central
Gender
" 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. "
Kimberly Bryant
Science
Technology
Opportunity
" One of the biggest lessons that we hope to model for several folks, including some of the young women of color who come to me, is the value of understanding your worth, standing up, and demanding the best for yourself and not taking less. "
Kimberly Bryant
Value
Best
Hope
" 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. "
Kimberly Bryant
Technology
Color
Made
" 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. "
Kimberly Bryant
Community
Technology
Through
" Girls who participate in Black Girls Code think of themselves as leaders. "
Kimberly Bryant
Code
Leaders
Think
" 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. "
Kimberly Bryant
Girl
Country
Change
" 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. "
Kimberly Bryant
Women
Color
Networking
" 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. "
Kimberly Bryant
Sure
Best
Special
" 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. "
Kimberly Bryant
Sound
Believe
Strategy
" We want to create a community of girls who will be empowered to become catalysts for transformation in their communities. "
Kimberly Bryant
Community
Create
Transformation
" 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. "
Kimberly Bryant
Been
Image
Story
" Our goal is to really have young women of color embrace the tech marketplace and the tech innovation space as both leaders and creators. "
Kimberly Bryant
Space
Color
Goal
" 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. "
Kimberly Bryant
Color
Doing
Tables
" 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. "
Kimberly Bryant
Pool
Technology
Creativity
" We're creating this new breed of techies who are going to be the ones starting the tech companies of the future. "
Kimberly Bryant
Creating
Going
New
" I think my biggest mistake was deciding not to go to law school directly after I graduated from college. "
Kimberly Bryant
Go
College
Law
" The images you see in media are vital to impacting not just what the world sees in terms of who can be a computer scientist, who can be techie, who can be a geek or who can be a creator; it also impacts the girls and what they internalize. "
Kimberly Bryant
Creator
Geek
Media
" 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. "
Kimberly Bryant
Future
Mother
Girl
" For me, as a woman in one of the less diverse fields - electrical engineering, which is what I studied in college - it was hard to persist and really build a career. Some of the things I experienced were really scary, and they weren't experiences that I wanted for my daughter. "
Kimberly Bryant
Woman
College
Daughter
" My first introduction to computers and computer programming came during my freshman year of college. I majored in electrical engineering with a minor in computer science, so I learned during my required courses at Vanderbilt University. "
Kimberly Bryant
College
Engineering
Computers
" When you've already experienced great challenges in your career, it gives minor setbacks a different perspective. "
Kimberly Bryant
Perspective
Challenges
You
" When I started Black Girls Code in 2011, there weren't any programs that had a foundation in communities of color to teach our kids about technology. "
Kimberly Bryant
Foundation
Technology
Color
" Technology is a ubiquitous part of our everyday lives, and the accompanying geeky lexicon has infiltrated every facet of our modern day society. "
Kimberly Bryant
Society
Technology
Day