#mvmt50

The openimg of the 2019 @PitchBlack Women of Colour Entrepreneurs pitch event at UTs McCombs Business School's Rowlings Hall. Rubin Cantu making his intro... #mvmt50xsxsw #mvmt50 #sheamoisturesxsw2019 https://www.instagram.com/p/Buzk2hiAXjr/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=49o5zhhqxa01

The openimg of the 2019 @PitchBlack Women of Colour Entrepreneurs pitch event at UTs McCombs Business School's Rowlings Hall. Rubin Cantu making his intro... #mvmt50xsxsw #mvmt50 #sheamoisturesxsw2019 https://www.instagram.com/p/Buzk2hiAXjr/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1gz2mfye3g1qj

ile the tech industry continued to try to figure out what to do about its diversity problem, 50 high school and college students of color were getting a taste of what it might be like to work in Silicon Valley at MVMT50’s inaugural hackathon, held over the weekend at Huston-Tillotson University in Austin, Texas. Organizations like MVMT50 have been looking at ways to address the lack of diversity in Silicon Valley, where blacks make up about 2 percent of the workforce. The diversity hackathon is one way to expose young people to opportunities they might not even be aware of, said Autumn Caviness, who organized the hackathon and is assistant director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Honors Program at HT.

I'm hosting another Twitter chat with MVMT50 (formerly Austin's Blacks in Tech) tomorrow Thursday, 3/5 at 6:30pm EST on the importance of mentorship and getting black youth interested in computer science and technology! Use the hashtag #MVMTChat to submit your questions for our guests!  Click here to check out last week's chat on entrepreneurship and philanthropy 

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View and share photos from the MvMT50 Welcome Reception #Essentials photo booth. Click here >>

March 9, 2014