Latest from Ruben Harris
East Palo Alto was the number one murder capital in the nation, despite being in the heart of Silicon Valley. This is where, Rocio Lopez, a DREAMer and a Product…
Silicon Valley has very few executives that have a LatinX background, and today’s Breaking Into Startups Episode features a young Dominican from the Bronx named Ysiad Ferreiras that survived gang violence, became an engineer, and is…
It was Mannah Kallon’s love for food and gaming that ignited the former chef’s career in coding. During culinary school and on a tour of the South (which he’ll discuss in our…
On today’s Breaking Into Startups episode, Harris interviews Quincy Larson, the founder of Free Code Camp.
How Everette Taylor went from a homeless college dropout to chief marketing officer at Skurt
There are roughly 58,000 homeless students on college campuses in the United States (according to the National Association for the Education of Homeless Children and Youth [NAEHCY] and Free Application for…
Companies are increasingly investing in workforce development to retrain their employees, but if you’re in your 50’s, it can be intimidating to learn how to code with a bunch of…
There are roughly 22,000 tech companies in San Francisco, yet most local high school students have never set foot in one. Most don’t even know what a “startup” or a…
Prison spending is 5x more than higher education, and ~10 percent of the U.S. prison population is in California. Part of the reason why people return to prison after they are…
This week’s Breaking Into Startups episode features Rodney Urqhart, who talks about how he acquired the skills to become a Senior Engineer at Slack after he dropped out of high…
People in government are organizers and hustlers with deep industry knowledge and skills that are applicable across a variety of roles in tech.
Breaking Into Startups: How Divine broke the cycle of recidivism to become a leader in criminal justice reform
When people are released from prison, it is often hard for them to reintegrate into society because of their “criminal” history. To that end, finding a job is almost impossible…
We all read the daunting statistics about single motherhood and teen pregnancy, but we don’t always get to read stories that humanize the individuals going through these experiences. As we…
Over Black History Month TechCrunch is working with the Breaking Into Startups Podcast to share stories of innovators making a difference. The podcast is a platform that features inspiring stories…