“This is Black Wall Street reborn using technology.” Kezia Williams is no stranger to entrepenuership and using technology as a platform to support Black people. Kezia founded The Black upStart…
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#TechTuesday with Ada Lovelace
⚙️ Ada Lovelace was an English mathematician who has been called the first computer programmer for writing an algorithm for a computing machine in the 1800s. Ada’s contributions to computer…
#TechTuesday with Hedy Lamarr
🔬 Hedy Lamarr was an Austrian-American inventor and actress. Hedy pioneered the technology that formed the basis for WiFi, GPS, and Bluetooth communication systems. Hedy was born in Vienna into…
#TechTuesday with Rear Admiral Grace Hopper
Rear Admiral Grace Hopper is the U.S. Navy’s oldest active-duty officer, who developed the first compiler for a computer programming language, along with UNIVAC I and COBOL. Grace was an…
#TechTuesday with Camille Hearst
💻 Camille Hearst is the CEO and co-founder of Kit, a social network for products. Camille graduated from Stanford before beginning her career at Apple, where she was one of…
#TechTuesday with Regina Gwynn
💻 Regina Gwynn is the Co-Founder and CEO of TresseNoire, an on-demand hair styling service for women of color. Regina also co-founded Black Women Talk Tech, which is a collective…
#TechTuesday with Jane Egerton-Idehen
💻 Jane Egerton-Idehen is a telecommunication executive, who earned her Bachelor of Engineer in Electronic engineering from the University of Nigeria before attending Warwick Business School and Harvard Business School….
#TechTuesday with Kamilah Taylor
👩🏾💻 Kamilah Taylor is a Jamaican software engineer who currently works as an engineer at Gusto. Kamilah also works on Swaay, which reduces toxicity in online discourse. While Kamilah now…
#TechTuesday with Lyndsey Scott
👩🏾💻 Lyndsey Scott is a model, actress, and programmer. Lyndsey recently shut down internet trolls after they doubted she was an expert programmer as well as a model. After graduating…
#TechTuesday with Lauren Mosenthal
Lauren Mosenthal is a product designer and engineer. In 2014, Lauren co-founded Glassbreakers, a diversity and inclusion enterprise software and a women’s peer-to-peer mentoring network. Lauren went on to lead…
#TechTuesday with Tracy Sun
Tracy Sun is the co-founder of Poshmark, a peer-to-peer fashion resale platform. Although Tracy earned her degree in biology and psychology from Columbia University, she earned her MBA from Dartmouth…
#TechTuesday with Regina Gwynn
Regina Gwynn is the Co-Founder and CEO of TresseNoire, an on-demand hair styling service for women of color. Regina also co-founded Black Women Talk Tech, which is a collective of…