Girl Develop It
Erin M. Kidwell
Background
10+ years as technologist. In addition to being a back-end programmer, also managing businesses and non-profits supporting diversity, transparency, and innovation in a variety of roles
What We Do
What We Do
"Girl, Develop It!"" began as a call to action for women, by women who were tired of the low representation of women in tech, and who want to make a difference today.
What We Do
Started in 2010, NYC
What We Do
Cofounders: Vanessa Hurst and Sara Chipps
What We Do:
Our Mission
Our Mission
Girl Develop It is a national nonprofit organization that exists to provide affordable, judgment-free workshops to women who want to learn web and software development through hands-on instruction.
What We Do:
Our Vision
Our Vision
Our vision is to create a network of empowered women who feel confident in their abilities to code and build beautiful web and mobile applications. By teaching women around the world from diverse backgrounds to learn software development, we can help women improve their careers and confidence in their everyday lives
What We Do:
Our Values
Our Values
We are committed to making sure women of all races, education levels, income, and upbringing can build confidence in their skill set to develop web and mobile applications.
Our Values
Our goal is to provide powerful hands-on programs to women seeking professional help in software development and create basic to advanced web and mobile applications.
What's the problem we’re solving?
The Problem
Women make up half of the U.S. workforce, but hold just 25% of the jobs in technical or computing fields.
The Problem
57% of professional occupations in the 2013 U.S. workforce held by women
26% of professional computing occupations in the 2013 U.S. workforce held by women
24% of Chief Information Officer (CIO) positions at Fortune 100 companies held by women in 2012
The Diversity Problem
3% of computing workforce who were African-American women in 2013
5% of computing workforce who were Asian women in 2013
2% of computing workforce who were Hispanic women in 2013
Source: NCWIT
Who We Are
Who We Are
Our core programs, now in over 48 cities throughout the US, are simple: we provide low-cost, judgment-free opportunities to learn software development.
Our Impact
Our Impact
Our community of over 29,000 members has led the industry-wide movement to improve diversity in tech since 2010, and today we empower over 1,000 students per month with coding skills and the community support to continue learning.
How we're different
Who we are in New York City
Who we are locally
Chapter Leaders: Aurelia Moser and Erin M. Kidwell
Our upcoming events
Events happening in New York City
Code Review + Coworking
Every other Tu/Th in January from 6-8pm
Stack Exchange
event link TBP
Events happening in New York City
A Day in the Life Fireside Chats
1/21 and every other Weds Q2
TBD: Etsy
event link TBP
Intro to HTML/CSS
1 night/4 weeks, February
AOL
event link TBP
Your Participation
Teaching
Mentorship
Professional Networking
Code Review + Coworking
Code + Coffee
Workshops
Panelist
Blogging
How you can get involved
Your Involvement with GDI
Instructors
Teaching Assistants
Volunteers
Become an Instructor
Our organization doesn't work without people willing to teach classes. No prior teaching experience needed; just a desire to teach! We help with all the rest, including preparing curriculum, materials and organizing your first class.
Become a Teaching Assistant
Students rely on subject-matter-experts during class to act as a guide to help them understand curriculum and implement the concepts in real-time.
Volunteer with GDI
Receiving help from the community enables us to support our mission. Some ways to help include:
Other ideas?
We always open to ideas for classes, programming and overall improvements for this chapter. Please feel free to speak to one of our chapter leaders, or email us at nyc@girldevelopit.com.
NYC Community
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