Check out The EdUp Experience EdUp UnFplugged webseries latest episode for a conversation with the AMAZING Temanté Leary. He is a Technology Company Founder, Professor, Lawyer, Microsoft Education Expert and Social Justice Warrior.
He started Black Men Talk Tech, an Entrepreneurship collective which promotes collaboration between Black Men and other members of the tech ecosystem in 2017.
According to The Brooking's Institute:
☑ Blacks make up 11.9 percent of all workers but only 7.9 percent of Computer Technology workers.
☑ While tech companies across the nation have over and over said they must do better, Blacks and still remain underrepresented in tech jobs by nearly 50 percent.
☑ increasing opportunities for people of color in one of the fastest-growing and highest-paying sectors of the economy is going to require more insistent efforts to bring about real change.
☑ Specifically, true inclusion will only occur when now-underrepresented groups accrue genuine power in tech, as noted by OpenMIC.org. One path to that future of greater Back inclusion in tech is through entrepreneurship.
In addition to his other ventures, Temanté is also the co-founder of Class Updates, an Edtech startup that provides a hybrid app for seamless real-time communication between professors and students. They aim to be the main avenue for real-time seamless student and teacher mobile communication at all high schools colleges and universities. Launched in 2017, they are currently seeking seed capital to help grow and scale the startup and are open to crowd-funding as a seed capital source.
Temanté works tirelessly for his students, for the community and to improve the technology industry. He's a testament to the power of hard work! 💪🏽
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