Education teaches you skills and skills give you power. And these days, a mastery of technology can…
Author: Ruben Harris
How Everette Taylor went from a homeless college dropout to chief marketing officer at Skurt
There are roughly 58,000 homeless students on college campuses in the United States (according to the National…
At 50, Dev Bootcamp’s Michael Jay Walker quit his day job to learn coding with kids in their twenties
Companies are increasingly investing in workforce development to retrain their employees, but if you’re in your…
Stevon Cook went from public housing to empowering public schools through tech training
There are roughly 22,000 tech companies in San Francisco, yet most local high school students have…
How The Last Mile helped Kenyatta Leal walk from prison in San Quentin to a job in tech
Prison spending is 5x more than Higher Education and ~10% of the US prison population is in…
Breaking into Startups: How a 16-year-old dropout became a senior engineer at Slack
his week’s Breaking Into Startups episode features Rodney Urqhart who talks about how he acquired the…
How a political strategist and former NAACP advisor became Silicon Valley’s Olivia Pope
People in government are organizers and hustlers with deep industry knowledge and skills that are applicable…
Breaking Into Startups: How Divine broke the cycle of recidivism to become a leader in criminal justice reform
When people are released from prison, it is often hard for them to reintegrate into society…