AlterConf Atlanta 2015
2015-02-28
Atlanta, United States
who it's for
diversity and inclusion organizers, k12 and community educators, tech hiring managers, early career technologists, game developers and designers, conference and event organizers, tech entrepreneurs
topics
job posting red flags; tech career for parents; founding an IT services firm; computer literacy curriculum design; non-CS to iOS app development; minority participation in STEM data; physical accessibility failures in tech; cultural context for people of color; representation in video games; trans microaggressions in tech; conference inclusivity practices; internship and stipend benchmarking
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Job Listing Minesweeper | Pamela O. Vickers | 20m |
Scans job postings for concrete giveaways: specific jargon, odd perks, and blunt hiring practices. Notes technical asks like HTML CSS JavaScript plus Python or… | ||
| What They Didn’t Tell You About Being a Techie and New Mom (Parent) | N. Liberty White, Alexander Bowers Schoen, John I. McSwain, III | 23m |
Claims about concrete tradeoffs and tactics, not motherhood platitudes: finished two master's degrees after children, juggles four kids including twins, and… | ||
| The 12 Year Old I.T. Guy | Nicholas Black | 13m |
Founder of America's IT Doctors describes launching an IT management firm as a young African American entrepreneur and documents concrete tactics: relentless… | ||
| Computer Literacy for Every Kid in the World | Natasha Dobson | 12m |
Proposes a concrete definition: computer literacy equals mastery of six skill groups — devices, applications, internet, media arts, web, programming — and… | ||
| Professionally Prepared but Not Pioneer Prepared | Monica Fox | 18m |
Shows that a tenured Black woman engineering professor is the sole representative at her institution and one of ~150 nationwide, won a presidential early… | ||
| A Non-Traditional Tech Degree | Michael Westbrooks II | 09m |
Claims a route from non-CS degree to a working app by teaching oneself core skills and shipping an MVP within months. Uses Swift and Xcode and basic concepts… | ||
| Low MISC: Why encouraging Minority Involvement... | Marvin K. Turner | 18m |
Data shows underrepresented minorities are 33.2% of college-age Americans but only 17.7% of advanced STEM degree holders, and Taulbee Survey shows decline in… | ||
| The Experience of Access | Laurel Lawson | 18m |
Design claims that architecture must not dictate use and people will repurpose interfaces in whatever way is most convenient; teams built around 4 to 8 people… | ||
| Context for People of Color | Juwan Platt | 12m |
Claim: people of color lack the contextual knowledge linking tech to culture, so interest stays low. Evidence: one adult first hears of Silicon Valley at 19… | ||
| Why Diversity in Video Games Matters | Imran Khan | 16m |
Argument: lack of representative protagonists reduces engagement for many players and is a business failure as well as a moral one. Evidence: Jason Brody in… | ||
| Fake Geek Girl: Trans Microaggressions in Tech | Bree Stanwyck | 14m |
Concrete examples of everyday harms: repeated misgendering as Chinese water torture, strangers asking have you had the surgery at a bar, and friends defaulting… | ||
| The Labors of Inclusivity | mariam Asada, Sarah Schoemann | 23m |
Conference runs for a third year and recounts concrete choices: fundraising to fly independent speakers; building an arcade cabinet housed at Harris bookstore… | ||
| nothing matches | ||