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Read the Rebooting Representation report highlights and subsequent Tech Action Opportunities. To achieve industry-wide inclusion and representation, it’s important that people across the tech landscape understand what’s at stake and how we can collectively work towards meaningful cultural change.

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Tell leadership at your company about the Reboot Representation Tech Coalition. If you think your company should make a commitment to collective action that supports Black, Latina, and Native American women, don’t hesitate to get in touch or download our form letter that makes it easy to share more information about Reboot with your coworkers..

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 If you are involved in the hiring process for your company, work with Talent Acquisition  and company leadership to insist on a diverse pool of candidates. Explicitly ask those who source talent to include one underrepresented woman of color in the slate of interviewees.

Check out key reading on gender and racial equity in tech

There are many resources you can turn to, and this list is not exhaustive, but these are good primer materials for learning more about the space:

  1. Rebooting Representation Report 
  2. NCWIT Intersectionality in Tech 101
  3. Othering & Belonging Institute: Women & STEM: It’s Not Just a Numbers Problem
  4. AAC&U: If Not Now, When? The Promise of STEM Intersectionality in the Twenty-First Century
  5. Emerald Insight: Navigating STEM-worlds: Applying a lens of intersectionality to the career identity development of underrepresented female students of color

You can also learn more about this issue by reading about other advocacy organizations working to increase representation in tech, like: 

  1. Kapor Center
  2. blackcomputeHER
  3. American Indian Science & Engineering Society (AISES)
  4. Computing Alliance of Hispanic-Serving Institutions (CAHSI)   
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