Deborah OkenlainYSYS#YSYS2023: Opening Doors to Opportunities in TechJoin us on a mission to connect 100,000 diverse individuals to opportunities in tech by 2023Mar 31, 2020Mar 31, 2020
Deborah OkenlainYSYSYSYS 2019 A Year in Review2019 has been a monumental year for YSYS, we’ve gone from building a community to managing a company and scaling our impact. Our community…Dec 27, 20191Dec 27, 20191
Deborah OkenlainYSYSPart 1: How The Civil Rights Movement Is Inspiring A New Change at YSYS.Note: Last month the team got together to create a vision board — we curated pictures and words that spoke to us and best described the…May 28, 20191May 28, 20191
Deborah OkenlainYSYS2018 — The FoundationThis year has been one of the most game-changing years for YSYS. If anyone had told tell me that a WhatsApp group I started in 2017 would…Dec 31, 20182Dec 31, 20182
Deborah OkenlaDeborah’s Letter to YSYSOn the tube to work today, it hit me how far YSYS has come and how our latest impact project with Capital Enterprise and JPMorgan is only…Jul 23, 2018Jul 23, 2018
Deborah OkenlainYSYSYSYS is live BackstageThursday 15th February I had the pleasure of hosting YSYS Roundtable with the amazing Arlan Hamilton Founder and Managing Partner of…Feb 21, 20181Feb 21, 20181
Deborah OkenlainYSYSWe’re on Slack!After an amazing 6 months on WhatsApp YSYS officially moved over to Slack on August 21st 2017. It took some sometime for us to get used to…Sep 10, 2017Sep 10, 2017
Deborah OkenlaApply to Data Pitch Accelerator 2018Data Pitch is a new startup accelerator funded by the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme. Over the next…Jul 24, 2017Jul 24, 2017
Deborah OkenlainYSYSWhere are the faces of black female founders, investors and journalists in tech?Disclaimer: Firstly, I want to point out this is not a post about how we need to encourage more black women into tech or venture capital…Jul 13, 20176Jul 13, 20176
Deborah OkenlainYSYSYSYS WhatsApp LinkupIn the middle of Streatham, somewhere located in the basement of The Hamlet the YSYS Fellowship came together for the first time. We…May 9, 2017May 9, 2017
