CEOs usually try to find ways to keep their organizations running for as long as possible. But Brenda Darden Wilkerson, CEO and President of AnitaB.org, is doing everything she can to achieve the opposite! She and the staff of AnitaB.org are working hard to achieve our goal of intersectional tech equity by 2025, and to…
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AnitaB.org is proud to announce that we have acquired Wogrammer, a global organization that uses storytelling to break stereotypes and inspire women and girls to pursue careers in STEM, on January 14. “My co-founder, Zainab Ghadiyali and I always believed the media has a powerful ability to shape the narrative around women in technology,” said Erin…
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Watch the video of Arlan Hamilton moderating a panel discussion of the 2019 AnitaB.org PitcHER™ winners. Congratulations to our 2019 AnitaB.org PitcHER™ winners! The annual AnitaB.org PitcHER competition was designed to support entrepreneurs from all industries who are leading early stage technology startups. According to Fortune, women-led businesses are the fastest growing segment of entrepreneurship, yet they receive the smallest percentage (2.2%) of…
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At AnitaB.org, we are dedicated to supporting women in tech and providing them with the resources they need to thrive in their careers. We offer a variety of support in the form of events, communities, and programs for both women technologists and tech organizations around the world. These resources include our Grace Hopper Celebration, Local Communities,…
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At the opening of the 2019 Grace Hopper Celebration, AnitaB.org announced Bank of America, Ultimate Software, and The New York Times as the winners of the 2019 Top Companies Women Technologists program. These three companies had the highest overall score, categorized by the size of their technical workforce. Top Companies for Women Technologists is a national program from AnitaB.org that…
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BRAID Institutions are Transforming Undergraduate Computing and Driving Intersectional Gender Parity in Tech BELMONT, CA – July 15, 2019 – Global nonprofit AnitaB.org is celebrating the 5-year anniversary of the Building, Recruiting, and Inclusion for Diversity (BRAID) Initiative. The impact of this program continues to expand, seeding culture change and organizational transformation at the computer…
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