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Episode 7: Closing The Wealth Gap Through Community-Based Tech Education

Episode 7: Closing The Wealth Gap Through Community-Based Tech Education

Released Monday, 9th August 2021
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Episode 7: Closing The Wealth Gap Through Community-Based Tech Education

Episode 7: Closing The Wealth Gap Through Community-Based Tech Education

Episode 7: Closing The Wealth Gap Through Community-Based Tech Education

Episode 7: Closing The Wealth Gap Through Community-Based Tech Education

Monday, 9th August 2021
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I talk to Jerelyn Rodriguez, co-founder and CEO of The Knowledge House, an organization created with the purpose of closing the gaps in the education­-to-­employment pipeline by leading digital skills training in coding and design for underserved young people in the Bronx. TKH combines technology training, career support, and a comprehensive network of partners to help disconnected job seekers secure rewarding careers in the tech economy and become financially independent, fostering the next generation of tech and data wranglers.Jerelyn and I discuss how TKH came to be, its different programs, the exciting expansion into new Markets (LA, Atlanta and Newark), how they combat hiring bias against black female candidates, the type of help and support they need from the tech community as well as and her own experience as a black innovator and social entrepeneur.

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