Shawn,

Perhaps you misread, so I’ll copy-and-paste it here for you:

All of the event organizations are aware of Women and Color as a resource to find women and PoC speakers for their events — I personally reached out to most, if not all, of the event organizers asking them to use Women and Color as a means to find speakers for their next events.

As for the directory’s goals, it’s to provide event organizers such as yourself with a tool to help make it easier for you to find women and PoC for your tech-related event. All of the speakers on the site are self-submitted; they learned about the platform and signed up to be a speaker.

Currently, there are 204 speakers who have signed up to be on womenandcolor.com and of those 83% identify as women and 55% identify as PoC. So to your point about it being hard, no, it’s not hard. You just need to make a better effort.