Universities and their computer science and engineering programs have been striving for years to boost the diversity of their student population, achieving varied levels of success. The schools are a… Read More
Last month’s Supreme Court ruling striking down affirmative action in college admissions may have ripple effects beyond education and into the corporate workplace. “At a minimum, it is going to… Read More
Ada Developers Academy, the Seattle-based tuition-free software development boot camp for women and underrepresented sexual, gender and racial minorities, laid off 45% of its workforce, the nonprofit confirmed to GeekWire… Read More
Amazon has expanded its senior leadership team with four additional leaders, according to a message to employees from CEO Andy Jassy, shared publicly by the company Wednesday morning. Newly named… Read More
Microsoft’s newly released Diversity and Inclusion Report shows some of its biggest gains yet in Black and African American as well as Hispanic and Latinx employee numbers. Women working for… Read More
Friday afternoon will mark the grand opening of the William Grose Center for Cultural Innovation, a hub for entrepreneurs, creative endeavors, community, education and the sharing of resources in Seattle’s… Read More
In an effort to sell more goods from companies run by people of color, outdoor retailer REI is launching a program to support diverse entrepreneurs producing gear for camping, hiking,… Read More
Perkins Coie is launching an effort called The Black Boardroom Initiative to increase the diversity of S&P 500 corporate boards by training cohorts of potential candidates. Its goal is to… Read More
When Kim Vu joined fintech startup Remitly as the head of diversity and inclusion two years ago, she spent hours manually crunching numbers, scrambling to gain insights into the teams… Read More
An increasing number of women are rising through the venture capital ranks, achieving partner or managing director status more than ever before. That’s the good news. The bad news? Women… Read More
After the death of George Floyd, tech leaders came together last spring and summer to condemn police brutality and vowed to do more to support racial equity and diversity. In… Read More
Femi Akinde and Mike Koss met a decade ago at StartPad, a former Seattle co-working space where Koss was director and Akinde was a startup founder. They both eventually moved… Read More
Elizabeth Nieto, the leader of Amazon’s Global Diversity, Equity and Inclusion team, is leaving the Seattle tech giant unexpectedly for a new job at Spotify after less than two years… Read More
Five years ago, when data privacy was just emerging as one of the most challenging business risks, Raghu Gollamudi spotted a trend. With new rules for tighter consumer privacy protection… Read More
We will soon turn the page on a pandemic that has consumed the conversation in boardrooms across America. Along with the rapid adaptation of digital workforces, we have seen another… Read More
When Jasper Kuria considers strategies for addressing racial inequity and social injustice in the U.S., he puts support of Black entrepreneurs at the top of the list. “It’s really about… Read More
Ada Developers Academy, the Seattle-based tuition-free software development boot camp for women and underrepresented sexual, gender and racial minorities, is spinning out from its parent organization and going independent. Ada… Read More
Textio, the Seattle-based augmented writing startup, is expanding its product offering beyond helping companies craft better job listings and is releasing “Textio for Employer Brand,” a tool to facilitate more… Read More
Women now represent 28.6% of Microsoft’s global workforce, up from 25.5% three years ago; and 20% of the company’s executive and partner-level positions, up from 15.8% three years earlier, according… Read More
Microsoft in June announced a sweeping racial justice plan, including an initiative to spend $150 million on diversity and inclusion programs, and double its number of Black and African American… Read More
Following the death of George Floyd at the hands of police and the resulting protests worldwide, tech companies and leaders have been vocal in their support for Black Lives Matter… Read More
Seattle-area tech companies are joining a national movement to increase the diversity on U.S. corporate boards of directors by adding Black members. Companies including Accolade, Amperity, Heritage Environmental Services, RealSelf… Read More
A group of venture capital firms today joined “The Diversity Term Sheet Rider for Representation at the Cap Table (Diversity Rider),” a new initiative that aims to increase investor diversity… Read More
The Equality Can’t Wait Challenge announced $10 million in new funding Tuesday, bringing the total grant package to $40 million. The gender equity initiative backed by Melinda Gates and MacKenzie… Read More
The pandemic and racial justice movement are catalyzing a conversation about equity in this country and forcing industries such as technology to confront the lack of diversity. It’s a challenge… Read More
Four women-led startups will receive a total of $6 million to scale their innovations from Microsoft’s venture capital arm, Mayfield, and Pivotal Ventures, an organization founded by Melinda Gates. The… Read More
Tableau will spend $10 million over the next three years to help non-profits and governments address racial inequity using data. The Seattle-based data visualization startup announced the program Wednesday. The… Read More
Two of the world’s wealthiest women are teaming up to roll out a $30 million initiative that will provide grants to organizations with “transformational” ideas for improving gender equality. The… Read More
Over the past decade, U.S. tech companies have solved some of the world’s most complex challenges. But the industry remains utterly confounded when it comes to improving diversity. Less than… Read More
At Seattle’s Cal Anderson Park on Thursday afternoon, as the sixth day of protests against police violence stretched into the seventh, it was clear something had changed. “We got gassed,… Read More
