Recode Decode: Laura Weidman Powers, CEO, Code2040

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Vox Media Podcast Network

Technology, Business

4.3 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2017

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Code2040 CEO and co-founder Laura Weidman Powers talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about the mistakes employees and managers make when they talk about diversity and inclusion in the workplace. Companies need to make fundamental changes to how they hire and operate to be welcoming destinations for underrepresented minorities, Weidman says. She discusses the inherent flaws in most "unconscious bias" training and what Code2040 has done differently when it partners with tech companies, finding jobs for hundreds of black and latino students over the past five years. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Recode Radio presents Recode Decode, hosted by Cara Swisher, powered by digital media.
0:07.0	Hi, I'm Cara Swisher, Executive Editor of Recode.
0:10.9	You may know me as a person who tricked Tim Armstrong into believing Oath is a good name,
0:15.5	but in my spare time I talk tech and you're listening to Recode Decode, a podcast about
0:19.4	tech and media's key players, big ideas, and how they're changing the world we live in.
0:23.7	You can subscribe to Recode Decode on iTunes.com slash Recode Decode, and while you're there,
0:28.9	leave us a review.
0:30.5	Today in the red chair is Laura Wideman Powers, the CEO of Code 2040, a nonprofit organization
0:37.4	that helps underrepresented minorities become technologists, inventors, and entrepreneurs.
0:42.4	She co-founded Code 2040 in 2012, along with Tristan Walker, who we've had on the show,
0:47.9	and previously served as an advisor to the White House on matters of science and tech
0:51.8	policy.
0:52.8	We're going to talk about that, Laura.
0:54.0	Welcome to Recode Decode.
0:55.5	Thank you.
0:56.5	Thanks for having me.
0:57.5	No problem.
0:58.5	I'm a little bit about your background.
0:59.5	I like to get people.
1:00.5	I like to know where they come from, where they formulate what they're doing.
1:04.1	Give me a little bit of your quick bio.
1:06.6	Yeah.
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