Apr 7, 2021 | Scholar Stories
On election night, Anjelica Valenzuela (Cohort 16) stayed up late to put the finishing touches on her application to join the Seattle Youth Council. In some ways, this was part of an evolution that began in 2016, when ten-year-old Anjelica prepared herself for the...
Mar 30, 2021 | Career Development, What We're Reading
by Steph Salazar, Career Development Manager, College Fair Fight founder and former Georgia House Minority Leader Stacey Abrams made headlines during the 2020 presidential election. Abrams built a “well-funded network of organizations that highlighted voter...
Mar 30, 2021 | Career Development, Scholar Stories
by Alison Krupnick Though she became famous as a novelist, Alice Walker was also a poet, with a book entitled Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth. Sara Sarmiento-Ruiz first encountered Walker’s poetry in high school. She says Walker was the first poet...
Mar 29, 2021 | Career Development
Code.org is on a mission to expand access to computer science education and to diversify the technology sector, where women and people of color are underrepresented. Computer science is foundational, it contributes to student success and it’s a fast-growing and...
Jan 28, 2021 | What We're Reading
Image courtesy of Getty and The Atlantic. Article link (June 2020) shared with permission from The Atlantic. This thought-provoking article by John Rice takes a hard look at organizational diversity practices, calling for alignment on what constitutes racist...
Jan 28, 2021 | What We're Reading
This engaging, personal and painful book by Stanford University psychology professor and researcher, Jennifer Eberhardt, uses neuroscience as a lens to examine stereotypes, racial discrimination and implicit and explicit bias. A pioneer of implicit bias training...
Jan 28, 2021 | What We're Reading
Our staff is committed to deepening our knowledge of anti-racist resources. Here is a list of books we are currently reading: Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson The Mothers by Brit Bennett On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong...
Jan 28, 2021 | What We're Reading
Our staff is committed to deepening our knowledge of anti-racist resources. Here is a list of books we are currently reading: The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown Sister Outsider by...
