The gap between my experience as a black woman in tech, and what others perceive of that experience.

In a way, you were the dream: someone who delivered high-quality work - or even perfection - without staying at the company long enough to get paid.

Decades have passed and still accessibility remains on the fringes of technical change.

We can’t ignore the composition of the Unicode Consortium’s members, directors, and officers -- the people who define the everyday writing systems of all languages across the globe.

Only the stories of those who are entirely sympathetic, that did all the right things, that say all the right words - those who have the privilege to speak publicly - will be heard.

How different the social media landscape would be if sites focused on more than the good ol' boys network to drive their initial growth.

What happens to all the data trails we leave in our digital wake? What kinds of precautions should we take with our health data? How do we bake a ‘Do No Harm’ Hippocratic ethic into health technologies? And what are the trade-offs between improving care and increasing surveillance?

Giving access to a tool as powerful as code creates social change and spurs economic mobility for those who have not shared equally in the rewards of the technological renaissance.

I have never met another person who is deaf at a hearing tech conference. I regularly see uncaptioned video tutorials for open source libraries and transcript-less tech podcasts. I stopped going to tech meetups. Without any representation in tech, I grew up a token.

My experiences call into question what we can do better to make more Latinos successful in tech.