Posted on by Joanna Goode
A new Oakland-based non-profit thinks so. And it’s breaking down the “brogrammer” stereotype, one website at a time.
By Julianne Hing, published July 31, 2012 on Colorlines.
Black Girls Code
Participants learn basic html with Black Girls Code’s Summer of Code in San Francisco on July 28, 2012. Photo by Julianne Hing
Jane Margolis of the ECS team and her research detailed in Stuck in the Shallow End are cited in this article about Black Girls Code, an Oakland-based non-profit educational initiative to introduce girls of color to the world of computers and technology.

Aita Zulu, on her first try and on her first day with computer programming, made a website. And then a day later and on her own, she made a second.

Zulu whipped up her first website, with simple blue text, a yellow background and an embedded YouTube video teaching people how to compost, as a student with Black Girls Code, an Oakland-based non-profit educational initiative to introduce girls of color to the world of computers and technology.