Mentorship Learning Lab (MLL) is an initiative within GET Cities’ Tech Equity Network (TEN) — an alliance of Chicago organizations that create and amplify city-wide opportunities to set a course toward a more inclusive tech workforce.
This essay is the second in a two-part series on the troubling increase in anti-trans laws being introduced and passed across the country. Read Part 1 here. Civil rights leader Fannie Lou Hamer spoke a profound truth in her speech to the National Women’s Political Caucus in Washington in 1971…
This is Part 1 of a two-part series examining the current state of trans rights and how it impacts our work and society at large. In a troubling turn of events, a wave of fear-based legislation is sweeping across the United States, targeting and endangering the rights of the transgender.
Research and innovation hold the potential to drive societal progress and create a better world. The tech industry’s documented barriers to access and equity for marginalized people — particularly those who identify as women, trans, nonbinary, Black, Latina/e, Indigenous, and/or people of color — hinder their progress and limit their.
Leslie Lynn Smith, Forbes Council Member This piece was originally published as a Forbes Technology Council, Member Post Virtually
Much of our work here at GET Cities relies heavily upon the use of identity-based labels. In fact, those labels are stated clearly in our mission statement — we aim to accelerate the representation and leadership of women, trans, and non-binary
Any entrepreneur can tell you that building a business from the ground up is no small feat. Although many people may possess the desire and drive to do the substantial work required to launch a new company,