Who Is Kimberly Bryant?

Founder of Black Girls CODE, Kimberly Bryant is Creating Opportunities for Future Leaders in Technology and Gaming

Kimberly Bryant is a trailblazer in the tech industry and a powerful advocate for diversity in gaming. As the founder of Black Girls CODE, she’s on a mission to increase the number of women of color in technology, including gaming. Through her organization, Kimberly provides young girls with the skills, resources, and mentorship they need to become future leaders in technology and gaming. By empowering the next generation of coders, engineers, and innovators, Kimberly is helping shape a more inclusive and diverse tech landscape where women of color have the opportunity to thrive.

 

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Two years before Google released its first diversity report in 2014, which shined a spotlight on the lack of inclusion in tech, Kimberly Bryant was already working on a solution to the problem. The report revealed that just two percent of Google’s 50,000 employees were black, three percent were Latinx, and only 30 percent were women. This confirmed what Bryant already knew — that black and Latinx women are sorely underrepresented in tech. To combat the problem, she founded Black Girls Code (BGC), a nonprofit organization that educates K-12 black and brown girls in computer programming, gaming, and product development.

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