Upcoming events during Black History Month🎉
Mark your calendars for these job fairs, panels, and more🗓
Happy Black History Month✊🏿
Check out upcoming events for the students, job seekers, Founders and Entrepreneurs of the Black community👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾
DIVERSITY REBOOT SERIES 2022: AMPLIFYING BLACK EXCELLENCE
As we continue to learn from and be mobilized by the Black Lives Matter movement, it's clear we need to gather with leaders at the forefront of elevating Black leaders who can relay their accomplishments as well as the plans they have in-progress.
Join us as we celebrate the voices and achievements of Black leaders in business, and we share how we are holding each other, our work, and our organizations accountable to pledges for creating inclusive workplaces.
February 7, 2022- February 10, 2022
YC Seminar: Black Engineers in Startups
Michael Seibel (Partner at YC) and Aston Motes (Investor, Director of /dev/color and 1st employee at Dropbox) are hosting the YC Black Engineers in Startups Seminar.
This is a 3-week series where 30 participants will meet once a week for two-hour sessions. During each session, you will:
Meet black technical founders and black engineers of YC startups,
Hear about how to pick a startup and build a career at one, and
Establish a network of peers and mentors.
To apply for the program, create a profile by February 3rd. Priority will be given to active job seekers. (If you're not ready to share your profile or look for a job, please specify so on the application.)
Applications due: February 3, 2022
February 29, 2022 - March 2, 2022
Black Futures in The Metaverse
The complexity of the actual world has started to seep into the Metaverse, in which identity serves as both a mirror of and a component of social capital, and when it comes to diversity, the metaverse will provide a powerful platform for all creators, especially Black creators, and voices to be amplified.
From the standpoint of the video game business or other IT industries, is there a system of regulations for who qualifies to be included, who gets left out, and how this will affect the metaverse's future? In what ways can we leverage history, more importantly for this conversation, Black History, to create better systems to support the technological advancements occurring in our society today?
Join us for a thought-provoking conversation where you will gain insights on the importance of Black contributions in the metaverse.
February 17, 2022