New App Fights Racism and Discrimination in the Media

New App Fights Racism and Discrimination in the Media

Women 2.0 sits down with tech founder, Dr. Brendesha Tynes to discuss her new app that advances racial and media literacy.W2: What were some of the factors that led you to become an entrepreneur? How has your past experience gotten you to where you are now?BT: While...

Racism and Meritocracy (Engineers Don't Blog)

By Hadiyah Mujhid (Co-Founder, Black Founders) It was never my intention to write about racism and meritocracy. Mainly, because I hate “talk” and prefer to “do”. Not saying that “talk” and discussion isn’t helpful, but its never been my thing, I “do”. So it slightly...
Racism and Meritocracy (Engineers Don’t Blog)

Racism and Meritocracy (Engineers Don’t Blog)

By Hadiyah Mujhid (Co-Founder, Black Founders) It was never my intention to write about racism and meritocracy. Mainly, because I hate “talk” and prefer to “do”. Not saying that “talk” and discussion isn’t helpful, but its never been my thing, I “do”. So it slightly...
Racism and Meritocracy

Racism and Meritocracy

By Eric Ries (Contributing Writer, TechCrunch) Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you can’t have missed the recent dust-up over race and Silicon Valley. Like almost every discussion of diversity and meritocracy in this town, it turned ugly fast. One side says:...