Resources

This is a blog post by Ciara Byrne is about the difficulties of being female in tech.

Racial Equity Tools is designed to support individuals and groups working to achieve racial equity. This site offers tools, research, tips, curricula and ideas for people who want to increase their own understanding and to help those working toward justice at every level – in systems, organizations, communities and the culture at large.

Downloadable guide to seven steps to advance and embed race equity and inclusion within your organization. Publshed by the Annie E. Casey Foundation.

Glenn Gillen's November 30, 2013 thoughts on the potential problems with meritocracy.

I list of over 100 organizations that provide funding, mentors, peers, publicity and more to founders of diverse backgrounds.

• Founders, use this to find resources tailor made for you.
• Speaker recruiters, here’s where you go to ensure diverse voices are heard.
• Funders, these are your pipeline partners to find best in class entrepreneurs.

Age appropriate resources for talking to kids about race and racism.

A diversity and inclusion statement from the company Vox Media, including some diversity metrics and inclusion practices. Includes graphs and charts.

Open Source & Feelings was a 2016 conference. This article is their Diversity Statement, describing the values and goals of the organization in regard to diversity and inclusion.

Etsy summarizes their gender and other diversity metrics and plans for inclusion.

Article by Twitter describing their current diversity statistics, inclusion efforts, and plans for the future.

Strategies for raising more inclusive kids post-2016 election.

Summary of diversity and inclusion data from the company Slack.

An interactive dashboard illustrating the diversity metrics for the company Buffer.com.

This short radio segment/article discusses the systemic reasons the computer science world saw a drop in female programmers in 1984.

Ashe Dryden's excellent talk about diversity at DrupalCon NA 2013.

See also the recording at https://www.ashedryden.com/drupalcon-portland-programming-diversity

Non-profit organization working for better inclusion in tech. 

Decades of research by organizational scientists, psychologists, sociologists, economists and demographers show that socially diverse groups (that is, those with a diversity of race, ethnicity, gender and sexual orientation) are more innovative than homogeneous groups.