This is part of WTOP’s continuing coverage of people making a difference in our community, reported by Stephanie Gaines-Bryant. Read more of that coverage. When Cristina Mancini attended a technology ...

Despite Black women making great progress within the tech space in recent years, they still make up just 3% of the tech workforce and even less in Silicon Valley leadership—less than 5%. Nonprofit ...

Through the expansion of educational content in recent years, YouTube has become much more than a site for entertaining escapism, and video creators have heralded in a form of accessible, digital ...

Last month, when Melinda Gates announced a $50 million initiative to support gender-inclusive tech hubs, she highlighted a stubborn reality about the tech industry: By large margins, women are ...

ST PAUL, Minn — A software engineer from St. Paul noticed something missing from her field of work: women of color. Victoria Kyereme decided to create a nonprofit all about coding with a mission to ...

Local girls, ages 7 to 17, learned about coding at the Law Center’s “Build a Webpage in a Day” event, hosted in conjunction with Black Girls CODE and the Center on Poverty and Inequality. The ...

The program launched in 2013 when groups like Girls Who Code and Black Girls Code were part of a push in the tech industry to close the gender equity gap. Danny Rojas said that surge was important, ...

Capital One and AngelHack are partnering to produce a series of one-day hackathons aimed at creating a solution for getting more women involved in tech. The D.C.-area edition of this hackathon will ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Women and girls of color will have additional opportunities for early involvement in the technology field via a new partnership between Citizens and Black Girls CODE ...

Lexy was a producer and on-air presenter who covered consumer tech, including the latest smartphones, wearables and emerging trends like assistive robotics. She won two Gold Telly Awards for her video ...

Families in Savannah with middle-school-aged students have a free camp option to consider this summer. Girls Code Savannah is offering a free camp at the Georgia Southern University Armstrong Campus, ...