A group of us gathered online from Automattic, Pinterest, Shopify, Drexel University, Rebrand Cities, and more to chat for an hour about a few complex questions based on an impromptu invitation to a conversation on Design × Inclusion and Diversity. You can listen in right here with August de los Reyes kicking this all off.
Special guests were Cynthia Savard Saucier and Sara Wachter-Boettcher authors of Tragic Design and Technically Wrong, respectively. And 30 participants from all around the world — with those connected via video in our ending group photo:
These are the non-profits that the 30 participants gave to be a part of the no-fee, impromptu 1-hour gathering.
- ACLU
- Baycat
- Black Girls Code
- Code for America Labs
- Code for Progress
- Code2040
- Coded by Kids
- Coding it forward
- Design that Matters
- Freedom Service Dogs
- Girls in Tech
- Girls Learning Code Canada
- Girls Who Code
- Ideo.org
- Inneract
- Institute for Human-Centered Design
- Kiva
- Larkin Street Youth Services
- New City Arts
- Pratham USA
- Project Color Corps
- STEM Education
- STEM for her
- Techfugees Social Enterprise
- UN Women
- Year Up
We managed to collectively raise $722.88 for advancing diversity in tech. Please give to any of the causes above, too, if you feel a need to change what you can see in the world. Thanks! —JM
PS Inclusive Design is our passion at Automattic. It’s clearly also the same for Pinterest and Shopify!
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