Google gives young coders of color access
employees were black and only 3 percent
were Latino.
“We would love for them to work
for Google,” Clarke said. “That’s
the goal.”
Code Next launched that
same year in Oakland,
providing free computerscience
classes to black
and Latino middle and
high school students,
both after school and
on weekends. Now
Code Next has expanded
to include
Chelsea and Harlem
locations. But
the center in Harlem
is run out of
the Boys and Girls
Club of Harlem and
is managed in partnership
with the New
York Urban League
and Emerging Leaders in
Technology and Engineering.
The one in Chelsea is
the largest of the three Google
Code Nexts.
Besides after-school classes, Code
Next offers tutoring and mentorship program.
Code Next’s fi rst cohort graduated
last year, and according to Clarke, Code
Next is going to start thinking about
how they can help their students now
that they head off to college.
BY ALEJANDRA O’CONNELLDOMENECH
Google is doubling down on its
efforts to foster greater diversity
among tomorrow’s tech leaders.
Its Chelsea-based program, Google
Code Next, now has a larger physical
space. The enlarged center, twice the
size of its previous incarnation, offi cially
opened on March 5.
Besides its increased size, the space
has a fresh and inspiring look. The faces
of black and Latino tech innovators, like
Kenneth Dunkley, the inventor of 3-D
glasses; Jordi Muñoz, the Mexican immigrant
who co-founded the company
3D Robotics; and Dr. Shirley Jackson,
an American physicist responsible for
technology that led to fi ber optics and
portable phones, all look down from the
walls of the new space.
Peta-Gay Clarke is the program leader
for Google Code Next in New York
City.
“One of the things we learned was
that access was a big issue,” Clarke said,
regarding challenges black and Latino
students face in pursuing computer science
as a career.
“When you go into communities that
are highly populated with black and Latino
youth, there aren’t a lot of places
where they can go where they can get
access to innovative tech, laptops, software,”
she said, “where they can
just try and be exposed to different
things.”
It’s this lack of access
that Google is trying
to mitigate in order
to solve the tech industry’s
diversity
problem.
According to
the U.S. Equal
Employment
Opportunity
C om m i s -
sion, only 7
percent of
all high-tech
industry employees
are
black and only
7.97 percent
are Latino.
The racial
disparity is even
greater within the
industry’s leadership,
according to the most recent
E.E.O.C. data. Blacks
only make up 1.92 percent of
leadership positions in high tech
while Latinos make up just a slightly
larger share, at 3.11 percent.
According to a report by Fast Company,
in 2016 only 2 percent of Google
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