The Huffington Post – Rebecca Klein
“Thirteen-year-old Olivia Ross says she isn’t used to being surrounded by other girls of color who have a passion for coding and computer science. The New York-based student says that while she “likes coding a lot,” her coder friends are “usually not female and they’re usually not black.” That changes when she participates in events with Black Girls Code, an organization that seeks to bring technology education to young women of color…In 2013, just 3 percent of the computing workforce was made up of African-American women.”(more)