Did you know that Black and Latina women make up less than 8% of the workforce in tech in 2020? Pariss Athena shares her unique story of becoming a black woman in tech and how that became a catalyst for her to start Black Tech Pipeline.
Jacob chats with Pariss Athena, a front end developer and founder of Black Tech Pipeline, a platform for the #BlackTechTwitter community to continue collaborating, receiving support, resources, and opportunity by other technologists who look like them. We talk about her personal journey from working in beauty as a wax specialist to working in tech as a front end developer and how that personal experience became a launching point the hashtag #BlackTechTwitter and so much more.
👉 https://www.blacktechpipeline.com/
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