Innovation For All - Diversity in Tech and Business – Details, episodes & analysis

Cassie Betts is the founder of District2.Co, a technology company that connects brands/designers with factories to streamline the manufacturing process, and Made In South LA (MISLA),

a DevShop Academy. Hear how Cassie went from being homeless to being called “The Woman Turning South LA into Startup Land” by Forbes.

You'll hear

• How she went from coding her first computer game at 9 to being homeless at 19, and how she turned that all around.
• How do you help protect the poor from being displaced through gentrification?
• Why more money should be spent on technology bootcamps instead of other diversity initiatives.

Note: This episode uses includes explicit language and includes some difficult topics about Cassie’s past that may be uncomfortable for some listeners. Please use your discretion.

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Paul Tasner, Co-founder and CEO of PulpWorks and more recently, Co-founder of Sort, has more than 40 years of operations experience. He has held leadership positions in ventures ranging from start-up to Fortune 100. For the past decade, his focus has been on sustainability. Paul’s corporate affiliations include The Clorox Company, Clif Bar, Method Products, and Hepagen Vaccines. He has authored numerous papers and presentations on supply chain sustainability and currently lectures on this subject in the MBA Programs at San Francisco State University and Golden Gate University as well as the Packaging Engineering Department at San Jose State University. He holds a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from the New Jersey Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. in Mathematics from Boston University.

In this episode you will learn:

• How PulpWorks manufactures packaging for consumer goods using fiber waste
• The story of Paul Tasner starting his first business at age 66
• The perks of being your own boss as an entrepreneur
• The specific challenges PulpWorks faces in securing new customers
• How to pursue investors in the competitive city of San Francisco
• Critical questions to consider for people nearing retirement that want to start a business
• How recycling is an answer but not the answer
• Why Paul is envious of the millennial mindset
• How rejecting plastic can make a difference
• What Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) is and how EPR regulations could impact society
• Paul’s new tech-based recycling business

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Sally Hubbard is Director of Enforcement Strategy at Open Markets Institute. Learn whether giant tech companies are building monopolies (spoiler alert: they are) and why that unfair advantage matters. In this episode, you’ll learn:

• What is Antitrust law?
• Is fake news an antitrust problem?
• How monopolies amplify inequality
• What would it look like to unmonopolize big tech companies?

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In this episode you will learn:

• How the CEO started Amplio Recruiting and why?
• What were some of the challenges in starting the business?
• How are companies vetted to ensure that the refugees are protected?
• What are the assumptions about the refugee community and are they true?
• What are the challenges with finding opportunities for women refugees?
• What is Amplio Ventures?
• What are some of the success stories?
• How has this work in diversity and inclusion influenced his personal views?

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In this episode you will learn:

• About the immense diversity of need within the disability community
• How ride share services can either be beneficial or challenging depending on different disabilities
• Examples of both simple and highly extensive modifications to vehicles that accommodate physical disabilities
• How certain populations with disabilities could benefit from autonomous vehicles
• What types of mechanical challenges for people with disabilities could be the same even in an autonomous vehicle
• How disability advocates are working with automotive manufactures to be more inclusive in the early stages of vehicle development
• How echolocation could be a model for the blind community to locate their car
• How ride sharing will fundamentally shift the automotive market to accommodate disabilities
• How we can build better data sets around people with disabilities

Links and mentions:

• Hans Wiberg, Founder of Be My Eyes
• Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM)
• Haben Girma

Connect with Henry:

• LinkedIn

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Please note: this episode was recorded before the COVID-19 Pandemic and the George Floyd protests.

Two years after her revenge porn nightmare began, Darieth Chisolm won the case against her ex-boyfriend. Should tech companies make it harder to weaponize their platforms against women?

In this episode you will learn:

• About Darieth's personal experience with revenge porn
• Her challenge of taking legal action outside of the U.S.
• The impact of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)
• Examples of first steps on how victims can take legal action
• Obstacles to taking down nude content that is published online
• A brief history of policies like the SHIELD Act and Enough Act
• How Freedom of Speech should not apply when it is enacted with the intent to do harm
• The pervasiveness of victim shaming and victim blaming
• The importance of parents having conversations about nude photos with their children
• Resources for victims of revenge porn (linked below)
• How Darieth is supporting victims today

Links and mentions:

• 50 Shades of Silence Documentary
• SHIELD Act
• Enough Act
• SpeakServeSoar.com membership
• Cyber Crimes Act of 2015 in Jamaica
• www.50shadesofsilence.com/
• Candi Castleberry
• DMCA.com
• Che Pinkerton 

Connect with Darieth:

• Twitter
• LinkedIn
• Website
• YouTube

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Please note: this episode was recorded before the COVID-19 Pandemic and the George Floyd protests.

You'll learn

• How contract workers are essential in aiding AIs and search engines
• Examples of a ghost work in everyday technology
• How the tech industry often devalues contract employees
• What data labeling is
• What a ghost worker's daily schedule looks like
• How the growing telehealth industry is a prime example of under-appreciated, yet essential contract work
• The three elements that undermine job happiness
• How business are benefiting from contract workers
• The growing challenges of moving towards more contract-driven business
• Why we should mind the gap rather than close the gap
• How the pandemic is demonstrating the value of contract and ghost work
• What are the limits of tech and where does human creativity and spontaneity become irreplaceable

Links and Mentions

• Lead Genius
• Amara
• Barbara Grosz
• Mark Sendak
• Ghostwork.info

Connect with Mary:

• Twitter
• Website

In this episode you will learn:

• How the civil rights movement impacted the growth of McDonald’s in black America
• How McDonald’s utilized black-centered marketing strategies to fuel advertisements
• The pros and cons to working in a franchise
• How the fast food industry was seen as a win for low-income communities initially
• How black-run McDonald’s franchises pooled resources to benefit the community
• The differences of how white and black America viewed McDonald’s and its impact on advertising
• How racist systems use black entrepreneurship as a way to avoid addressing racism
• COVID-19: Challenges to the food justice movement and what environmental racism is
• Corona virus: What are the limits of the private sector?
• Experience and complexities of black franchise owners
• How to reframe historical storytelling to highlight the community rather than the business

Franchise is available now wherever books are sold.

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Caroline Criado Perez is a writer, journalist and feminist campaigner. She has written two books: Do It Like A Woman and Invisible Women. In her most recent book Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men she describes how very old data bias can affect women today. In this episode, Sheana learns about the different ways data bias is affecting women today, from trivial things such as phone size to not so trivial things such as seat belt safety. Caroline tells all this and more in this episode of Innovation For All Podcast.

In this episode you will learn:

• What is male default thinking?
  
• What are the consequences in tech?
  
• Why the market is so bad at providing for women?
  
• What is low hanging fruit for those of us who want to make money by providing solutions for women?
  
• A stove example of male default thinking.
  
• What can entrepreneurs and consumers do about these issues?
  

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