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Recode Decode: Laura Weidman Powers, CEO, Code2040
Episode 115

Recode Decode: Laura Weidman Powers, CEO, Code2040

Decoder with Nilay Patel · The Verge

April 12, 201747m 47s

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Show Notes

Code2040 CEO and co-founder Laura Weidman Powers talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about the mistakes employees and managers make when they talk about diversity and inclusion in the workplace. Companies need to make fundamental changes to how they hire and operate to be welcoming destinations for underrepresented minorities, Weidman says. She discusses the inherent flaws in most "unconscious bias" training and what Code2040 has done differently when it partners with tech companies, finding jobs for hundreds of black and latino students over the past five years.

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