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S14:E9 - How to build tech for social justice (Alex Qin)
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In this episode, we talk about how to build tech for social justice, with Alex Qin, co-founder and CEO of Emergent Works. Alex talks about the challenges she had to face being a woman in tech, how shaving her head caused people to treat her with more respect and launched her on a path toward social justice, and her company’s first in-house app, Not 911.
Show Links
- Code Comments (sponsor)
- IRL (sponsor)
- Emergent Works
- Not 911
- How to go from convict to coder
- Python
- Betaworks
- GIPHY
- Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations about Race
- Gamergate
- Women Who Code
- Shaving my Head Made me a Better Programmer
- The New Jim Crow
- The Fortune Society
- React
- Doodle Jump
Alex Qin
Alex Qin is the founder of Emergent Works, a nonprofit software company that trains and employs formerly incarcerated coders. She is a reformed software engineer who has been working in the space of prison reentry and criminal justice reform since 2018. She spent most of her career before that writing code and advocating for a more diverse and equitable tech industry. She is also an international public speaker and some of you may have seen her talk about how shaving her head made her a better programmer. And she is a performance and visual artist. Her first solo show, Losing Things, premiered in New York in December 2019.
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Archiwalne serie ("Kanał nieaktywny" status)
When? This feed was archived on August 16, 2023 15:23 (). Last successful fetch was on November 03, 2023 04:54 ()
Why? Kanał nieaktywny status. Nasze serwery nie otrzymały odpowiedzi od kanału przez zbyt długi czas.
What now? You might be able to find a more up-to-date version using the search function. This series will no longer be checked for updates. If you believe this to be in error, please check if the publisher's feed link below is valid and contact support to request the feed be restored or if you have any other concerns about this.
Manage episode 281051316 series 1250448
In this episode, we talk about how to build tech for social justice, with Alex Qin, co-founder and CEO of Emergent Works. Alex talks about the challenges she had to face being a woman in tech, how shaving her head caused people to treat her with more respect and launched her on a path toward social justice, and her company’s first in-house app, Not 911.
Show Links
- Code Comments (sponsor)
- IRL (sponsor)
- Emergent Works
- Not 911
- How to go from convict to coder
- Python
- Betaworks
- GIPHY
- Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations about Race
- Gamergate
- Women Who Code
- Shaving my Head Made me a Better Programmer
- The New Jim Crow
- The Fortune Society
- React
- Doodle Jump
Alex Qin
Alex Qin is the founder of Emergent Works, a nonprofit software company that trains and employs formerly incarcerated coders. She is a reformed software engineer who has been working in the space of prison reentry and criminal justice reform since 2018. She spent most of her career before that writing code and advocating for a more diverse and equitable tech industry. She is also an international public speaker and some of you may have seen her talk about how shaving her head made her a better programmer. And she is a performance and visual artist. Her first solo show, Losing Things, premiered in New York in December 2019.
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