S16:E7 - How you can build communities for love and profit (Veni Kunche)
Building communities doesn't just have to be nonprofit work.
In this episode, we talk about how to build communities and diversify tech with Veni Kunche, founder of Diversify Tech. Veni talks about her struggles landing her first coding job, often being the only woman of color at tech meetups in the past, and how she set out to diversify tech.
Show Links
- TwilioQuest (sponsor)
- DevDiscuss (sponsor)
- DevNews (sponsor)
- Career Karma (sponsor)
- Cockroach Labs (sponsor)
- Diversify Tech
- Out In Tech
- Techqueria
- Black Tech Pipeline
- How to harness privilege to create equitable design
Veni Kunche
Veni is a coder, a maker, a founder, and a mom. After working as a software engineer for 15 years, she launched Diversify Tech, where she connects underrepresented people in tech to opportunities as well as helps companies hire them.