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The Emerging Face of Tech with Laura Weidman Powers of CODE2040

May 27, 2015

 

In the spirt of Startup Grind’s Female Founder Month we have a great interview with laura weidman powers founder of CODE2040 which is a great organization that brings african american and latino youth into tech companies via their popular fellow ship. 

Before graduate school at Stanford, where she earned a JD/MBA, Laura worked largely in the nonprofit sphere on organizations like CityStep and Portraits of Hope.

shortly before speaking at startup grind 2015 code2040 received a $700,000 dollar sponsorship from google! 

Laura is joined by Johnny C taylor who is the Ceo and President of the Thurgood marshall college fund which provides millions in scholarship funds each year for students to attend historically black colleges. 

they are interviewed by nicole sanchez who is the founder of vaya consulting.