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Black & Unhoused: A Panel Discussion

There is no more vivid reflection of our inequality crisis than the thousands of people forced to live on the streets in California and across the country. More cutting still is the fact that 40% of unhoused people in the U.S. are Black, despite only representing 13% of the general… Read More

Can the California Legislature Fix our Housing Crisis? – Recording

Last Thursday, about 100 people joined us for an online discussion about the most promising statewide bills up for a vote this year and how the closing legislature is complicating things.  Ian Eve Perry, TechEquity’s Policy Manager, moderated the discussion with Matt Levin, housing & data reporter at CalMatters and… Read More

Community Spotlight: David Peters

Tech workers from across the Bay Area have joined 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 show them off! Meet David I’m a 3rd… Read More

Call Voters to Pass Prop 15

Most of us want the same things: good schools for our children, a healthy family, and safe neighborhoods. But for more than four decades, big corporations have not been paying their fair share, letting California fall behind. California now has the most overcrowded classrooms in the country, rising homelessness, and… Read More

Texodus – Recording

With the announcement from tech giants like Facebook and Twitter that most of their employees can work from home forever, many people are expecting a mass tech exodus from the Bay Area—a texodus, if you will. For some, it’s a call for celebration, a release of the pressure valve of… Read More

Community Spotlight: Emily Nakashima

Meet Emily Emily is the VP of Engineering at Honeycomb.io, a startup that helps software engineers understand and visualize their production systems in real time. In her spare time, she writes and speaks about monitoring & tooling for client-side applications. She also is a former organizer of AndConf, an inclusive… Read More

Tech companies: It’s time to show that Black lives really matter to you

Published previously on TechCrunch. Over the past couple of weeks, in the wake of the protests over extrajudicial killings of Black people, tech companies have made tens of millions of dollars in commitments to racial equity organizations. These commitments are a powerful signal of the moral heft of the… Read More