Kimberly Bryant
African American electrical engineer
Kimberly Bryant (born January 14, 1967) is an American electrical engineer who worked in the biotechnology field at Genentech, Novartis Vaccines, Diagnostics, and Merck. In 2011, Bryant founded Black Girls Code, a nonprofit organization that focuses on providing technology and computer programming education to African-American girls.
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- "Seeing my daughter, the next generation in the same type of space lacking diversity, was alarming to me".
- "I really wanted to solve that problem and perhaps create a future for my daughter that would be a little bit different than mine".
- "It’s our call as women who are in these male-dominated fields and have built their careers to reach back and teach the next generation".
- "Technology inclusion is so important because the world is changing rapidly".
- Kimberly Bryant Creates the Future She Wants to Seeby FRANNIE SPROULS,SEPTEMBER 14, 2022 Retrieved 17/11/2023
- "I think it’s important for us to own our own stories as Black people and how we build".
- "Long before I even envisioned any set structure for Black Girls Code, and I just had an idea, that was one of the first things I did, was to go and grab those URLs and they have always remained".
- Exclusive: Black Girls Code Founder Kimberly Bryant Shares Her Side Of The Story After Being Removed As The CEO by SHANIQUE YATES,AUG 30, 2022 Retrieved 17/11/2023
