Women Who Code Webinar: My Career in Coding and How I Transitioned My Career Yesterday I had the opportunity to give a presentation in a Women Who Code SF Webinar hosted by Hackbright Academy. The Webinar was entitled: “My Career in Coding and How I Transitioned My Career.” I set three objectives for the talk: Objective #1: Walk through my experience making a career…

About 9 months ago I set out to leave my teaching career of six years to pursue a career as a Software Engineer. I attended a 3 month Programming Bootcamp called Hackbright Academy during which I not only learned the fundamentals of programming, but more importantly, the fundamentals of what…

Justin McLeod Bethune is on a mission to change the way Black men are portrayed in our society. After watching the documentary 13th, Justin was frustrated by the media’s history of promoting negative images of Black men as rapists, jokesters/ ‘dumb’ entertainers and criminals. …

In my previous post, I introduced my month long project called #Educate28 in which I pledge to post one educational tool per day for learning more about Black History. In case you missed them (or don’t use twitter), check out last week’s tools below. Week 1 Recap is viewable here…

In my previous post, I introduced my month long project called #Educate28 in which I pledge to post one educational tool per day for learning more about Black History. In case you missed them (or don’t use twitter), check out last week’s tools below. Week 1 Recap is viewable here. Day 8: Henrietta Lack’s Contributions to Cancer Research …

In my previous post, I introduced my month long project called #Educate28 in which I pledge to post one educational tool per day for learning more about Black History. In case you missed them (or don’t use twitter), check out last week’s tools below. Day 1: Documentary 13th View the trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V66F3WU2CKk

At first glance, you might not know that I come from a mixed home. Even though I have very fair skin, I identify as an African American woman. Whenever Black History Month comes along, it is important for me to try to stay as educated as possible about my heritage. …

This week I served on a panel at Hackbright Academy entitled “How I Got My Job Alumni Panel.” …