Hello World. Meet Femmecubator.
We’re a team of women making strides to empower fellow women of color to pursue a career in technology.
Femmecubator started from a simple idea of peer mentorship in 2017 as I was transitioning to a career in User Experience Design. My continued pursuit to break into tech through mentorships, pro-bono tech projects, hackathons has paid off as later I got into a two-year grad program at NYU where I landed my first UX job. Third year into the tech industry, I still find the space quite challenging, so I try to seek out avenues to mentor and be mentored.
I’m an IoT product designer by day and a civic techie at heart. I say civic techie with so much pride because the Femmecubator team is slowly beta testing its first service, and girl we got some plans for ya’ll! We’re lining up our year-end goals while social distancing amidst the pandemic, laser-focused on one simple objective in 2021: to create pathways for 10 Women of Color bootcamp grads through a project-driven mentorship program.
In 2020, we’re kicking off collaborations and partnership opportunities detailed below. ❤️️
Code Word Agency Partnership — Thrilled to announce that Code Word, through their Open Door initiative has pledged to collaborate with us to work on a digital strategy in anticipation of our community launch in 2021. Stay tuned!
Civic Tech Fall 2020 Cohort — We are doing a pilot run of our mentorship program with 4 tech mentees in UX and Web Development, who are recent grads of Flatiron School and General Assembly. Led by 2 industry mentors, we are training up and coming civic technologists to expand on their skillset while building within an agile environment to launch Femmecubator’s online community.
Our volunteer fullstack developer, Anh Vuong has quick updates on her work on the Femmecubator Web App. If you are an aspiring web developer, she posted her process in a tutorial format below.
Service Design Workshop — A collaborative opportunity to work with Design Thinking facilitator and founder of BlackIgnite.com, Heatherlee Nguyen to lead the team in improving a community experience for Femmecubator.com on 11/22/2020. Look out for updates!
Get updates on @femmecubator on Instagram and follow our journey on LinkedIn.
