Organizers on getting started, holding conversations about your workplace and building solidarity.

This is a feminist issue considering hackathon practices prevent the growth of a diverse, critical tech sphere.

Building sustainable funding that supports your mission and goals, allows you to grow, and develops community connection.

Makeathons and other similar events want to “do good” and “make the world a better place.” The people behind these events need to realize *how* they do them is as important as *why* they are doing them.

Why do you think you're spending hundreds of thousands of dollars holding hackathons, sprint weeks, and conferences? And how could you be using that time and money better?

In the wipe of rights to our ancestral homelands and the realization that a country we call home doesn’t understand our sovereignty, social media has played a huge role in igniting movements that bring awareness and positive change.

Seven principles that past movements have taught me on sustaining change today, drawing especially from the civil rights movement.

Wide accessibility must become a part of everything we do in the tech industry, and our events are a critical part of that mission.

I weigh the challenges we face against the spirit of our group. We embrace our blackness, we love black identity, and we are proud to be coders.