Susan Mernit, Founder & Executive Director, Hack the Hood Twitter Handle: @SusanMernit As we all know, the tech sector is exploding in the Bay area–but not everyone feels–or is–included–in the growth. How are local grassroots organizations and tech companies addressing these issues, together and separately? What foundations and local non-profits are staking out career education and inclusion as critical components of their programs? Susan Mernit and the Hack the Hood team, winners of the 2014 Google Bay Area impact Challenge, reviewed the Bay Area organizations addressing these issues and makes suggestions on how you can be involved.

1. October 2, 2014
Play video: Hack the Hood graduation
http://youtu.be/Cjz7TNJqlxw

2. October 2, 2014
Digital Inclusion and Building A Pipeline to Change the
Face of Tech in the Bay
Susan Mernit
Social Media Bootcamp

3. We’ve all seen those tech buses in our neighborhoods

4. But most of the people on the bus don’t look like this--

5. They look more like this

6. 6 percent of U.S. tech
workers are African
American
7 percent are Latino.
In 2011 13 percent of
engineers & 27
percent of computer
professionals were
women
Tech isn’t inclusive

7. And most investment dollars go to White and Asian men

8. So I am not telling you
anything you don't already
know about the tech
industry, right?

9. At Google, 1% of the staff
is Black
2% are Hispanic
17% are female

10. But we can’t fix the employment problem until we
fix the education problem—it’s all broken.

11. Young people of color need
more access to learning…
Only 74 black students took
the AP Computer science
exam in California in 2013.
74 out of almost 5,000 test
takers.
25% of high schools with
the highest percentage of
black and Latino students
don’t even offer Algebra II

12. To qualify for new jobs… By 2020, there will be
1.4 million new
computer science jobs
--and only 400,000
computer science
students in the US
--unless we change
things

13. Hack the Hood & others are
working to build that pipeline
Hack the Hood won
$500K from Google
to reach 5,000 young
people of color & shift
the script.

14. Boot camps,
weekend Hack Days,
internships, intensives
and career education &
mentoring turn young
tech consumers into
producers—
And train and inspire
them to pursue tech
careers.
Hack the Hood Program
Offerings:

16. They are no longer
passive consumers of
what's going on on the
internet, they become
actively involved. I think
that’s really empowering
and will reshape the
internet.
-Eric Soares, Mentor

19. It’s happening— here & now--
“If more youth are
involved, they will be
able to build websites
and also get into the
tech industry by creating
personal connections
with people who are
already working in the
tech industry”
-Teresa
Ways to engage:
•Volunteer
•Mentor
•Partner
•Donate
--or what really
matters--

20. Listening

21. Being an ally

22. #realtalk
Having hard conversations

23. Building a talent pipeline for the future.

24. THANK YOU

25. Sources and credits:
•Video, Catherine Bracy, What Techies Need to Know About Politics, Personal Democracy Forum
•https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ywblz8y8aQ#t=15
Video, Kimberly Bryant, Black Girls Code, Personal Democracy Forum
•http://personaldemocracy.com/media/girls-color-coding-radical-act
•Blog Post, Mary Fuller, Hack the Hood: Let’s unite around diversifying the tech landscape - http://bit.ly/U6x9eZ
•Report: Disparities in STEM Employment by Sex, Race, and Hispanic Origin
•American Community Survey Reports, Liana Christin Landivar, September 2013
•https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publications/2013/acs/acs-24.pdf
•Article: Tech Companies Work to Combat Computer Science Education Gap - US News http://bit.ly/1pHp7kH
•Video: Van Jones, #YesWeCode, SoCap https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPU6QXMw0cw#t=1421

26. Stay in touch:
Susan Mernit, CEO, Hack the Hood
susan@hackthehood.org
@hackthehood
http://facebook.com/hackthehood