My Journey In #tech — Believing in Myself
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My blogs chronicle my experience as a technologist making my way into Silicon Valley. I am a queer person of color, gender non-conforming, immigrant, and ex-foster youth. I come from a non-traditional computer science background. I studied a few CS courses in college and ended up majoring in the humanities before becoming a teacher. Teaching web development to under served teens turned me on to coding. After getting a scholarship to a prominent coding school, I began working at start ups in San Francisco. Half of my blogs are about technical subjects and the other half about equality and tech access (my journey).In 2015, I was teaching middle school ESL (English As A Second Language) in Oakland, California. I was following in my mom’s footsteps. She taught at an urban public school (...)