Slides for Code for Progress's Disrupt segment at RootsCamp2014

1. Ida B. Wells
was a data
genius.

4. This is not an
innovation
environment.

5. It is also not
a new story.

6. And as with so many
old stories...

7. ... we believe
that we will win.

8. 2.8%

10. 100%

11. Hiring is not the end of the
employment pipeline.
Many of the employers and
coders in this room worked
with us on the next phase.
Thank you.

12. We have found that one of the best
ways to hire more women and people
of color is to hire them.
Sometimes this meant that employers
had to ask innovative questions
about what “innovative” means,
namely: what needs to be built?

13. “Can you make software
with us that could
_____?”

14. If industries spend resources
on inclusion instead of on
finding “the best,” what
happens to quality?
I dunno, ask basketball.

15. For 2016: Desegregate tech
Call the talent void what it is: an
opportunity void. Then fill it.
Help us train innovative people to be
innovative coders. Then support them.
Find non-coder champions in the organizing
world to pilot new tools beyond contact
management and targeting.
Innovate.

16. @codeforprogress
Take the diversity survey we just tweeted!