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5 Black Female CEOs Leading the Charge in Tech
Trailblazers like Aisha Bowe, a former NASA rocket scientist and CEO of STEMBoard, and Kimberly Bryant, founder of Black Girls CODE, are breaking barriers and inspiring the next generation. From creating accessible STEM education tools to bridging gender and racial gaps in tech, these women exemplify excellence. Here are 5 Black female CEOs leading the charge in tech. Aisha Bowe Aisha Bowe is a…
Secret Lair is a new kind of product from Wizards of the Coast first launched in 2020. It’s a print-on-demand series of alternate-art cards that are only available for a limited period of time. Black Is Magic, presented by game designer Sydney Adams, focuses on Black artists and Black subjects. Proceeds will benefit Black Girls CODE.
“The first time I saw Secret Lair: Black Is Magic,” Leyson-Smith wrote in early February, “my mind was flooded with memories of no-bake desserts with Grandma; trips to the corner deli with Grandpa; feelings of inadequacy in high school because I looked different from my peers; the strength of my mother and sister; and my growth as a youth to embrace my identity as a Black and Asian woman. I hope you also find (and share) personal connections with the release.”
Commissions for Charity!
I’m so excited to announce this to you all!
Starting today (June 10th), I’m accepting writing commissions for charity.
All proceeds will go towards Black Girls CODE. This is a non-profit organization that promotes computer coding to underrepresented communities across the United States. As a woman in the industry, I can see firsthand the lack of women of color in technical roles – especially computer science.
“Black Girls CODE has set out to prove to the world that girls of every color have the skills to become the programmers of tomorrow.”
I used to teach children with the same tools they use in their outreach programs, so I know they work to spark that first introduction with programming. It’s so important that girls can see their opportunities and have the tools they need to reach for the stars.
There’s no easy way to say that people are suffering right now and this is how I can give back. If you can’t give monetarily, it’s okay! There’s no obligation! We’re all doing the best we can.
If you are interested, I’ll only be accepting four commissions at a time. Unfortunately, I do have real-life work to do and I’d hate to disappoint by being slow because I took too many requests.
Requests: Closed
Prices/money logistics are down below. Thanks!
A BLACK GIRLS LIT BOOK REVIEW:
Slay by Brittney Morris 🎮
Thank you to Simon Teen and Simon and Schuster for sending me an arc of my most anticipated book of the year! This is the first arc I have ever requested so I was super excited to find this surprise in my mailbox!
Available 9/24!
Synopsis: By day, 17 yr. old Kiera Johnson is an honor student and one of the only black kids at Jefferson Academy. But by night she is the Nubian persona Emerald in the black only vr MMORPG game, SLAY, which she secretly created. However, when a boy is murdered over a dispute in the game, the media accuses her of "anti-white discrimination" and a racist troll threatens to sue her, expose her identity, and ultimately destroy the only place where Kiera and hundreds of thousands of black gamers have the freedom to be themselves.
YO! When I say this book is amazing...it really is! This book is action packed and fast paced from beginning to end and every battle scene and game location is so vividly described that I felt like I was watching a movie or reading the novel with VR headsets on lol! And everything in SLAY, from the battle cards to the hair and character wardrobes, is so unapologetically black that I wish it was a real game just so I could join in on all the fun! Seriously, I need someone to make SLAY a game asap!!! 😩
My favorite parts of the book were the duel sequences, the conversations on race, analyzations of blackness, and the plots' focus on the importance of having a safe place to both be and express oneself. The novel also has several chapters dispersed throughout where we get to see other SLAYers' pov and experience what the game means to them, which was a added surprise that I really enjoyed.
The only issue I had with this book is that I would have loved to have seen a page or even just a few paragraphs about how Kiera actually made the game, programmed it, or learned how to code; I just think it would have been cool to see some glimpses of her game building process. But even though this was missing it did not take away from my adoration for this read!
Yes, this book deals with some tough issues that are prevalent in the black community and is another display of black trauma in YA but I think this book still has things to contribute to the ongoing conversation of race and racism in our society and does it in a much more creative way than any book I've read before.
This book is similar to THUG but it will also give you all the Pokémon, Yu-Gi-Oh!, and Ready Player One vibes too!
Everyone should read this and I can't stress enough how much I absolutely LOVED this book!!!
Rating: 👸🏾👸🏾👸🏾👸🏾👸🏾/5 (because "You are a queen, and this is your game!)
P.S. When you find out who the troll is, you'll lose your mind!!!! #mindblown!!!
Also if (or when 🤞🏾) this is adapted to film, I need China Anne McClain to play Kiera!
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A bird, a plane, a black E-girl ❤👍🏽
This just gave me an excuse to play in makeup and put pink eyeshadow all over my face...
Doing a post-grad in a different faculty to what you did your undergrad in is very interesting. I was a civil engineering student for 4 years. Now I am an inter-disciplinary student in computer science, statistics and commerce.
I have been getting these niggling feelings of discomfort whenever I am learning something new. I had gotten so used to having some sort of idea of what I was doing in undergrad and now everything is new. The trick is to acknowledge those feelings of discomfort and still push through.
At some point everything makes sense and I find myself being able to explain what used to be alien concepts to my classmates. Just last week I was able to help civil engineering students understand some of the calculations they were doing based on the knowledge I had gained this year in my new program.
Despite everything being alien and feeling so vulnerable in terms of my abilities, I am still so excited to be part of my program. I constantly remind myself that it’s a privilege to be here and I have a right to be in this space, at this time.