Learning from Gay Straight Alliances to Diversify Tech
summary
Created a Gay Straight Alliance at a rural community college and partnered with a local LGBT Center to run meetings, rights workshops, and training professors that measurably improves retention and produces student leaders. The model treats a safe space as hacker space: teach not only coding but workplace organizing, HR complaint procedures, language audits, and how to build leadership pipelines so marginalized people advance to tech leadership rather than remain entry-level.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:24Safe spaces as survival
- 2:30Tech diversity as rights issue
- 3:56Safe spaces as hacker spaces
- 5:02Training marginalized activists
- 6:24Beyond cookie-cutter diversity
- 7:12Empowering marginalized voices
- 8:59Call to action organizing
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