Addressing hiring holistically.

Having more white women attendees at a conference this year than last is hardly diverse, and hardly a reason to celebrate diversity when Black people and Latinxs still make up only 5% of people in tech.

Most “get into tech” programs are only accessible to computer science students and rich people. The rest of us are left behind.

On project teams and in workplace culture, enforcer roles fall to women regardless of their job titles.

The tech industry prides itself on its rationality, and yet is filled with trite slogans that are demonstrably untrue... and further, harmful.

I don’t want to be on an engineering team with people who were primarily chosen by their ability to write code on a whiteboard.

Every step along the way, exclusionary hurdles are introduced to limit the candidate pool.

Having cisgender white males and venture capitalists creating projects about diversity not only doesn’t make sense, it’s insulting.

We must examine the harmful outcomes that technology events foster: discrimination, aggression, and harassment. The only way to change these outcomes is to change behavior.

Here are some methods I've learned over the past two years to create well-attended, diverse events.