By Julianne Hing at Colorlines.com
Aita Zulu, on her first try and on her first day with computer programming, made?a website. And then a day later and on her own, she made?a second.
Zulu whipped up her first website, with simple blue text, a yellow background and an embedded YouTube video teaching people how to compost, as a student with Black Girls Code, an Oakland-based non-profit educational initiative to introduce girls of color to the world of computers and technology.
That?s exactly the kind of confidence Black Girls Code founder Kimberly Bryant wants girls of color to come away from the workshops with. ?I want these girls to be the next Mark Zuckerberg, the next Steve Jobs, and be the women that are creating and building positions of leadership in tech,? she said.?If Zulu?s quick gains are any indication, the young organization is well on its way to meeting its goal. But increasingly, encouraging girls of color to jump into the world of technology is not just about increasing corporate diversity. It?s also a matter of equity, and an absolute economic urgency.
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Source: http://www.abhmuseum.org/2012/08/can-a-black-girl-be-the-next-steve-jobs/
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