Mom,
Techie,
Professor
"There isn’t one thing that will address the issue of underrepresentation in the tech industry. Instead, there are a number of ways industry leaders can have impact. For starters, we can increase focus on collaboration and partnership within and across industries. We can improve education and understanding of how to foster a diverse and inclusive culture and more importantly, what it looks like in practice. We can broaden our understanding of the internal and external systems that lead to heterogeneous workforces, and better communicate the interventions needed to dismantle those systems, to produce more equitable outcomes. Lastly, we need to increase investment in finding and supporting the next generation of talent from underrepresented communities."