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Ep. 116 - Diversity in Tech - Part I (Ashe Dryden)

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Tech News, Technology

4.7618 Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2016

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Ashe Dryden helps us unpack the many questions, misconceptions, and realities of diversity in tech. In part I of our interview, she gives us a diversity primer, explains why this topic is so important, and tells us how she produces AlterConf.

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0:43.7

I'm your host, Aran, and before we kick off the show, I want to tell you about our incredible sponsors.

0:49.5

Today on the show, I'm so excited to have programmer, diversity advocate, and consultant, author,

0:54.9

and creator of AlterConf, Ashtriden. Ash, do you want to say hi? Hey, everyone. So you have done a ton of

1:01.7

work in diversity and inclusion and launched a number of projects like AlterConf and the brand new

1:07.0

Rest Fest. We're going to get into all that in a little bit. But first, I want to start

1:11.0

with something that I saw on your website that I thought was very, very interesting. Right under your

1:16.2

name, I think it's, I don't know what to call it like the headline, the slogan of the website.

1:20.4

It says programming diversity beyond the pipeline. Tell us a little bit about that. Yeah. So,

1:26.4

so I'm actually a programmer by trade. And over the

1:29.6

past five or so years, I've started doing a lot more research and writing and speaking and kind of

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