Discussion on Social Media with Shireen Mitchell of Digital Sisters

Submitted by coruh on Mon, 05/03/2010 - 10:34am
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Date: 
Saturday, May 22, 2010 - 11:00am - 1:00pm
Location : 
DC

Shireen Mitchell: Digital Sisters, Founder
Location: Sister Space and Books
3717 Georgia Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20010

As a teenager growing up in the New York City Projects in the 1980s, Shireen Mitchell ventured where no young black girl had ventured before: the local video arcade. "The store owners tried to kick me out because I could beat anyone there with a quarter, so they weren't making any money," Mitchell says. "I couldn't imagine anyone who didn't like tech -- that was my world. But in 1984, I was the only female there." Today the company Mitchell keeps outside the arcade is not that different. A social-media consultant, diversity advocate, and tech nonprofit founder, she still often finds herself the only African-American female on IT teams and at conferences. Only about a fifth of science and engineering managers are female, and even fewer make it to the board level of prominent high-tech firms.

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