The Truth About Mentoring Minorities
summary
Claims that mentoring reduces minority attrition with concrete evidence: an apprenticeship at a flight produces career placements when protégés get a strong network of mentors who act as both coach and counselor, adapt across race and gender, and explicitly avoid protective hesitation. Transcript cites quit-rate contrasts (white 3.73% vs African-American 4.79%, much higher multiples for women of color) and shows mentors teaching TDD, Ruby scope, and career skills — the apprenticeship model demonstrably works for retention.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:24About Byron
- 0:39How I became a software crafter
- 2:43The inspiration for this talk
- 3:31Why arent minorities succeeding
- 3:45Where is the gap
- 4:19The mentors
- 4:37The numbers
- 5:06Double minority
- 6:13Domino effect
- 7:15What sets them apart
- 9:16Building a network
- 16:15Role modeling
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