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" 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

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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. "

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

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

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" 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. "

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

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" We want to create a community of girls who will be empowered to become catalysts for transformation in their communities. "

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" I did not grow up around computers, so technology was not a tool used every day in my household. I was drawn to computer science due to the creative nature of programming and the technology focus. "

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

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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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. "

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

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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. "

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

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" 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. "

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

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" As the coding movement continues to grow, the common narrative of the white male geek as the predominant influencer on geek culture will erode. "

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" 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. "

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

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

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" Technology is a ubiquitous part of our everyday lives, and the accompanying geeky lexicon has infiltrated every facet of our modern day society. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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