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Bills, Bills, Bills (Can You Pass My Bills?)

Just like that, we’ve reached the end of the 2021 legislative session. It was a challenging year for legislators and advocates crafting the laws that shape our society; with an ongoing pandemic and a recall election, dozens of consequential bills hit the Governor’s desk to be signed into law. While… Read More

Accessibility Design in Housing – Recording

Accessible design is a hard-fought battle on screens and in streets: many people with disabilities are often barred from both digital and physical communities, in large part because the designers creating those spaces didn’t consider their needs in the process. Take housing, for example: for housing to be accessible, it… Read More

Community Spotlight – Seema Gururaj

Tech workers from across the Bay Area are joining TechEquity’s network and are giving their time, skills, and financial support to make their communities more equitable. We’re proud of our growing community full of smart, passionate, engaged citizens and we want to celebrate their contributions! Meet Seema  Seema Gururaj is… Read More

System Reset: Event Recording and Recap

“Am I going to have to pay for my past for the rest of my life? Am I going to have to wear these invisible handcuffs? Am I ever going to find a career or a job with a living wage?”Shelley Winner, Restorative Justice Activist and Product… Read More

Take the System Reset Pledge

We’re building a campaign to get System Reset into every tech company in California. Take the pledge now to get involved! First Name* Last Name* Email* Zip Code* Title Company/Organization Do you work for a tech company?… Read More

Separate and Unequal: How Tech’s Reliance on Disproportionately Diverse, Segregated, and Underpaid Contract Workers Exacerbates Inequality

The Contract Worker Disparity Project is a first-of-its-kind worker-centered research initiative combining workers’ first-hand accounts, industry research, and a sector-wide sampling to reveal contract work practices in the tech industry. Previous reports for the initiative investigated the working conditions of contract workers, the role and business models of hiring agencies… Read More

Tech Wave Across the Country: Lessons Learned from Silicon Valley – Recording

From Austin to Atlanta, Boulder to Bend, cities across the country are greeting the arrival of tech companies and workers with equal parts excitement and apprehension. The diffusion of the tech industry beyond Silicon Valley brings an alluring promise of economic growth to places that desperately need it, but with… Read More

Lili Siri Spira

Lili Siri Spira is the Social Media and Campaign Marketing Manager for TechEquity Collaborative. Before joining the TechEquity team, Lili ran the social media for an anti-online harassment nonprofit, OnlineSOS. She also continues to co-manage RatedResilient.com, a platform that promotes psycho-social resilience for digital activists. Through this work, she held… Read More