4:10pm - 4:20pm Building Safe Spaces for Millennials of Color
Thursday Aug 10
Description
Current diversity and inclusion initiatives have had slow traction in lowering a high dropout rate for underrepresented tech employees. With a bottom-up approach, Project 99 emphasizes a peer to peer curriculum, led by millennials of color for millennials of color focused on navigating identity in the workplace. Our program has been piloted 4 times (twice in the Dominican Republic, Chile, Mexico) and has lowered the dropout rate and helped our clients attract, retain, and promote diverse talent.