Break Through Tech has been making headlines.

Hot off the Press!

• McKinsey & Company: Removing Barriers to Get More Women in Tech

In the News

• Inside Higher Ed: Micro-Internships Give Women a Foot in the Tech Industry Door
• Forbes: Are We Burying The Lead On The Upheaval In Tech?
• New York Times: An Engine of Upward Mobility Struggles to Capture Opportunities in Tech
• Crain’s New York Business: Nearly 1,000 Women Got A Spot At A Tech Company After This Experience
• Workshift: Micro ‘Sprinternships’ Show Results For Female Students In Tech
• Forbes: Five Ways Tech Leaders Can Support Women On Their Teams Finding Their Own Voice
• Forbes: The Scarcity Of AI Talent: A Problem Of Our Own Making Is A Problem We Can Solve
• Forbes: 5 Simple Things Tech Leaders Should Do In 2022 To Advance Gender Equality
• Miami Herald: Melinda Gates spending millions to give women greater opportunities in Miami’s tech sector
• Forbes: Innovating Across Sectors to Fuel Gender Equality in Tech: A Q&A With Renee Wittemyer
• Forbes: Unlocking the Transformational Value of AI
• Forbes: Judith Spitz, Founder and Executive Director of Break Through Tech, is named a Forbes: woman over 50 who is leading the way in impact and innovation.
• Forbes: Why Tech Executives Must Embrace Diversity As Their First Line Of Defense Against The Business Impacts Of Algorithmic Bias
• Forbes: Tech Summer Internships Version 2.0: Why CIOs And CTOs Should Repurpose Their Summer Internship Programs As Diversity Initiatives
• The Wall Street Journal: How to Get More Women Into Technology(Subscription Required)
• Medium: Reboot Representation Grantee Spotlight: Amy Furman
• Fast Company: COVID-19 does discriminate. It’s making it harder for women of color to get into tech
• Forbes: Melinda Gates Names Chicago First Gender-Inclusive Tech Hub
• Fast Company: Melinda Gates’s Pivotal Ventures has a plan to help women gain more power in tech
• Crain’s New York Business: Cornell Tech’s Women’s Initiative to Expand Nationally (Subscription Required)
• Crain’s New York Business: Break This Catch 22 and Close the Tech Gender Gap (Subscription Required)
• Metro New York: City’s ‘Winternship’ program intends to put more women in tech

Press Releases

• Cornell Tech: Gender Equality in Tech (GET) Cities Expands to DC to Diversify the Tech Ecosystem
• Cornell Tech: WiTNY Initiative Announces National Expansion to Recruit More Women in Tech – Formally Becomes Break Through Tech
• CUNY: CUNY, Cornell Tech, And Founding Partner Verizon Announce Women In Technology And Entrepreneurship In NY Initiative

Insights

• If they don’t hear from you, they probably won’t promote you
• Five Ways Women Break Down Barriers in Tech
• Kim Churches on why young women graduating from college in the pandemic face a “triple threat,”
• Leslie Smith on why cities are the perfect ecosystems for accelerating gender equality in tech
• CEO Dwana Franklin-Davis on helping women of color break through in tech