Personal Narratives

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• Reflecting On One Very, Very Strange Year at Uber — Susan Fowler

• The Other Side of Diversity — Erica Baker

• Not a Black Chair — Amélie Lamont

• Thoughts on Diversity Part 2. Why Diversity is Difficult. Leslie Miley

• Coding Like a Girl — sailor mercury

• Seeking Happy — Erica Joy

• Growing Up — Justin Edmund

• Why Aston Motes, Dropbox’s First Employee, Chose MIT Over Caltech — Aston Motes

• A black engineer’s take on why diversity matters at startups — Leighton Wallace

• Twitter thread on performance reviews for URGs — Mekka Okereke

• I Didn’t Notice: Why I Trained Myself Not To Be a “Woman in Tech” — Katie Womersley

• Obligated to D&I — Bukky Adebayo