This is simple. I'm Tish Hawksenreider.

In this episode I'm talking to Michelle Glouser, a community organizer and advocate for diversity in tech.

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dot com and you'll stay in the loop every week in under a minute. Okay, back to Michelle. So what's a community organizer and advocate for diversity in

tech, right? Well, she started this thing called Tectonica, which is a six-month

tech apprenticeship program.

They partner with tech companies

to provide free tech training, living stipends,

and job placement to women in need in the Bay Area.

They specifically focus on underserved diverse populations with an opportunity to be involved in this long-term tuition-free full-time program that prepares and then places apprentices in the software engineering field without having to worry

about financial instability. Michelle says that since becoming an engineer in 2012

she's been passionate about helping underrepresented people join, feel comfortable

in, and stay in the software industry.

So if you know much about the tech world or even simply the Bay Area, you know that Michelle's nonprofits focus on women here,

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