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Zach talks about the recent SCOTUS decisions and their impact on the corporate DEI landscape. He also welcomes Matt Stephenson, the co-founder of Code2College, to the show to discuss C2C, its mission and more. Check out the book "When Affirmative Action Was White" on Amazon. https://amzn.to/44viU6E Connect with Matt on LinkedIn. https://bit.ly/3PIcQ6K

On today's community focused episode, Bingham Group CEO A.J. sits down with Matt Stephenson, CEO and Co-Founder of Code2College, and Carl Settles, Founder and Executive Director of E4 Youth. Code2College and E4 Youth, both Austin-based 501(c)(3) nonprofits, were the 2022 recipients of respective $10,000 unrestricted grants from the Bingham Group Foundation. The Bingham Group Foundation's mission is to financially contribute to inspiring nonprofits creating educational and economic access for underserved communities in the Austin Metro. Founded in Austin in 2009, E4 Youth uses the arts, sciences and technology to bridge the gap for underserved teens into the creative economy. Founded in Austin in 2016, Code2College's mission is to dramatically increase the number of minority and low-income high school students who enter and excel in undergraduate STEM majors and careers. Founded in 2020, Austin-based Bingham Group Foundation was created to further develop a culture of philanthropy established by A.J. Bingham, Founder and CEO of The Bingham Group, LLC. The Bingham Group Foundation is a corporate sponsored 501(c)(3) tax-exempt public charity. Episode 188 LINKS: • E4 Youth -> https://e4youth.org • Connect with Carl on LinkedIn -> https://www.linkedin.com/in/carlsettlesjr • Code2College -> https://code2college.org • Connect with Matt on LinkedIn -> https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthewcstephenson ABOUT THE BINGHAM GROUP, LLC Bingham Group works to advance the interests of businesses, nonprofits, and associations at the municipal and state level. View our services here -> https://bit.ly/3H7xyXC Follow Bingham Group on LinkedIn at: https://bit.ly/3WIN4yT Connect with A.J. on LinkedIn at: https://bit.ly/3DlFiUK Contact us at: info@binghamgp.com We are a HUB/MBE-certified Austin lobbying firm. www.binghamgp.com

Welcome to Season 4 of Here to Help! For the first episode of 2023 Chris is joined by Matt Stephenson, CEO and Co-Founder of Code2College. Founded in 2016, Code2College focuses on preparing minority and low-income high school students with the technical and professional skills necessary to enter and excel in STEM undergraduate majors and careers. Chris and Matt will talk about why opportunity and access are vital for career advancement, the supply/demand mismatch in the STEM field and how his program is designed to address it. For anyone looking to give back this year, you'll also hear how you can get involved in skills based volunteering.

Austin's exponential growth has certainly created challenges. But it's also opened the door for inspiring leaders to step up and offer creative solutions. In this episode, ABJ Managing Editor Will Anderson invites Code2College Co-Founder & CEO Matt Stephenson to share how he and his team are engaging, and challenging, Austin's tech community to support and inspire low-income and minority students to pursue STEM careers.

After two years virtual, SXSW EDU 2022 was back in person in Austin earlier this month! It was an amazing four days of amazing conversations. By far, one of the most inspiring ones for me was the one I had on the Cognizant Foundation podcast stage with three women whose career paths have been changed by tech training programs that opened the doors for them in an industry that hasn't always been the most welcoming to women. Simply put: These women are amazing. These programs are amazing. In this episode – which we recorded live in front of an enthusiastic audience – you'll meet: Kate Nichols – a 32-year-old former teacher who packed up her bags in Austin and moved to Seattle to learn software programming at Ada Developers Academy. She got a paid internship at Zulily as part of the training. She loves education still and has been able to combine that love with her new career at Hello World.Sage Lee – a 26-year-old former retail food worker who went from stocking shelves to an intensive seven-month intensive software programming class in Denver's Turing School. Today, after a paid apprenticeship at Handshake, she's an associate junior programmer at the company. By the way, she went from barely making $40,000 to making more than $90,000 a year – that's a big jump from her salary at the grocery store.Maria Contreras – an Austin high school senior who started learning to code at 15 in a free Code2College afterschool program that landed her a paid internship at Indeed. We learned on stage that the now-18-year-old is headed to Rice University with a full scholarship to major in computer programming. What these young women have in common is their desire to move into an in-demand career, and that they were able to find free, or almost free, training programs geared toward young people who don't have the financial resources to do it on their own. We talk about how they did it, and how you can do it too! You can listen here – and I encourage you to listen all the way to the end – or you can download and listen from wherever you get your podcasts. Thanks to Kristen Titus, Hannah Lee, and Kyle Gunnels and all the Cognizant Foundation team for inviting us to record the podcast on their stage! WorkingNation was a media partner with SXSW EDU for the fourth year in a row. Check out our interviews for our WorkingNation Overheard series for a flavor of the other conversations we had in Austin this year. Episode 224: Expanding Opportunities in Tech at SXSW EDUHost & Executive Producer: Ramona Schindelheim, Editor-in-Chief, WorkingNationProducer: Larry BuhlExecutive Producers: Joan Lynch and Melissa PanzerTheme Music: Composed by Lee Rosevere and licensed under CC by 4.0Download the transcript for this podcast here.You can check out all the other podcasts at this link: Work in Progress podcasts

Trying to figure out how to break into the tech industry can be daunting. Traditional four-year institutions can be expensive places to learn computer science and lack of exposure to the skills needed in the industry as a whole can derail a career before it gets started. In this Expanding Opportunities in Tech podcast series produced in partnership with Cognizant Foundation, we examine alternative, free training programs, each offering a foot in the door to teens and young adults from historically underrepresented groups in the tech industry, including women, BIPOC, and people from low-income backgrounds. When she was 15, Maria Contreras and her family moved to Austin, Texas, from Venezuela. Tech had never part of the career conversation in her home before the move, but at her new high school she heard about an after school program that could teach her how to code and it piqued her interest. Contreras signed up for the program, run by Code2College, last year and started learning some basic programming languages. Code2College says its mission is to dramatically increase the number of minority and low-income high school students who enter and excel in STEM undergraduate majors and careers. In doing so, it sees itself as an opportunity to develop a pipeline of diverse, technical talent for the nation. In addition to teaching in-demand tech skills, it offers something unique for its teenaged students: a paid internship. This past summer, Contreras found herself putting her new skills to use at Indeed, the job recruitment platform. At age 17, she was a high schooler working side-by-side with college interns and getting paid. At the orientation, recalls Contreras, despite already having some coding skills, she felt a bit out of place. "I kept hearing 'I'm from UC Berkeley.' 'I'm from Stanford.' 'I'm from UT Austin.' And then my turn came. I'm not even in college yet. I was just finishing off my junior year. I felt a lot of imposter syndrome. I was (thinking) 'Maybe I should not be here.'" But, she says, the company was welcoming and supportive. She worked alongside experienced programmers and was assigned a mentor who she met with each week. Contreras also attended team meetings, just like a full-time programmer, an experience she says helped her grow professionally and personally. "I definitely felt frustrated from time to time. It was challenging. I got stuck a lot of times and I was sometimes a little afraid to ask for help. I thought some of my questions would be dumb, and maybe these college kids won't have the same question as I do, and they probably already know this," she tells me in this Work in Progress podcast. "I slowly got used to asking for help, getting better at figuring things out on my own. Being a coder is (facing) a problem, not being expected to know the solution right away, but figuring out a way to know the solution." Contreras says the internship experience helped her decide to major in computer science in college. She says it also exposed her to another aspect of the tech industry. That is, though it's starting to change, it's still dominated by white males. "It was a team of about 25 people, only four of those were women, and only one of them was Hispanic. But, the thing I love at Indeed is that they put a lot of emphasis on celebrating diversity. They had us attend a lot of events in which people of color or people belonging to the LGBTQ community told their experiences. I related to some of those stories. It made me feel like I belong (in the tech industry)." Creating a Sense of Belonging While Growing a More Diverse Tech Talent Pool Matt Stephenson is the co-founder and CEO of Code2College. He believes it's critical to capture the imagination of bright, motivated teenagers like Contreras early, not just to help them learn the technology, but to help them see themselves in the industry. "It's incredibly important to reach students as young as possible,

In this episode, we talk with Career Coach and Code2College's Manager of College and Career Success, Ale Garcia about her experience as a first-generation college student and valuable lessons she's learned along her career journey. Among other insight, Ale shares why asking more questions is a key to success, how one can be nervous and assertive at the same time, and the secret to making failure your friend.

Never has technology so dramatically changed humankind than in the last century. Organizations are using technology in truly innovative ways to solve the many problems we have and to create opportunities such as improved living conditions, economic impact, and longer life expectancy. This week, we discuss how diversity in technology and rigorous test can help drive innovation. We welcome Efosa Ojomo from the Clayton Christensen Institute and Matt Stephenson from Code2College to talk about the power of tech that welcomes everyone and provides solutions for all members of society. We share examples of how the combination of AI and clinical expertise may be able to save lives, with the help of test of course.  Learn More About: What are some examples of how our smartphones can catch disease early and cut the costs of lab tests? Organizations use technology in innovative ways, but to keep up momentum, innovation needs to be as accessible as possible. How Henry Ford and the Ford Motor Company not only brought cars to the masses, but sparked the creation of millions of jobs, more affordable health care, and roadway structures. What does the democratization of technology mean, and how can test bring the costs down? How can test can affect a country's quality of life and can help ease the effects of poverty. How are we using test and technology to bring products to underserved markets that may not have access to power or clean water? Why is testing infrastructure absolutely necessary? Validation tests and production testing are both used to get a new product to market. How rigorous are each? Why is it important for managers to think about innovation? Why is it important for young people to learn about the importance of test and diversity in technology, and what is Code2College doing to help our young generation of engineers and coders?  Resources Mentioned: NIThe Prosperity Paradox Code2College CRADLE Butterfly Network Band-Aid   

Today on That Tech Pod, Laura and Gabi Talk to Executive Director and Co-Founder of Code2College, Matt Stephenson. Code2College is an n Austin-based nonprofit that equips traditionally underrepresented high school students with coding and professional skills towards entering and excelling STEM undergraduate majors and fields.In Fall 2016, Code2College launched as a pilot in two schools serving 30 students. Four years later, Code2College has served nearly 1,000 minority and low-income high school students from across Central Texas. Code2College has continued to place high school students into highly competitive, technical internships at companies like Indeed and RetailMeNot. Follow That Tech Pod: Twitter-@thattechpod LinkedIn: LinkedIn.com/thattechpod website: thattechpod.com

In Episode 16 of the Charity Charge Show, Stephen Garten chats with Matt Stephenson, the Co-founder of Code2College. Central Texas is facing a crisis. Despite its regional reputation for innovation, the nearly 5,000 technology companies with offices in the Austin area and several world-class research institutions, there remains a shortage of skilled, local talent to fill a wide variety of technical roles. Companies continue to source technical talent from outside of Texas and abroad, and as the explosive (and consistent) growth of the area would indicate, the pace is far from slowing down. What's worse, there is a huge population of students in Central Texas who remain underserved. Facing a talent surplus and opportunity deficit, many girls, students of color and low-income students lack two of the most critical factors to entering pathways into STEM careers: exposure and practical experience. Students who haven't met a data scientist, don't have an anesthesiologist in the family, nor heard of the investment banking industry, are unlikely to pursue these or other technical fields. And those who do will find themselves behind the curve once matched against their affluent and/or well-resourced counterparts. Herein lies an opportunity to develop a pipeline of diverse, local technical talent for the region. Code2College is a multi-year, career prep and college access program that leverages local volunteer technical talent to teach coding and web development skills to traditionally underrepresented students in order to push them to and through college, and into STEM careers.

Matthew Stephenson, Executive Director and Co-Founder of Code2College, joins host Karl Ulrich to discuss his founder's journey on Launch Pad. Code2College provides coding sessions and development workshops to underrepresented groups in order to promote a diverse field of high school candidates applying to STEM majors. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Austin, Texas is one of the hotbeds of startup and innovation in the country. Google, Apple, Facebook, AMD, Cisco and Amazon are just a few of the large-scale data and tech-driven conglomerates that call the Central Texas city home. Despite a notable claim to attracting new talent to the once sleepy capital, the region is facing an underlying crisis: a lack of locally produced talent to fill the demands of the numerous tech positions across the region. Companies continue to source technical talent from outside of Texas and abroad, and as the explosive (and consistent) growth of the area would indicate, the pace is far from slowing down.Code2College, a not-for-profit entity, aims to teach high schools students the necessary skills to land tech jobs that would normally go to outside talent. According to their site, there's "a population of students in Central Texas who remain under-served. Facing a talent surplus and opportunity deficit, many girls, students of color and low-income students lack two of the most critical factors to entering pathways into STEM careers: exposure and practical experience."Matt Stephenson, WG'11, is the founder and CEO. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Thomas Kutzman- Thomas Kutzman is a real estate tech entrepreneur and co-founder of Prevu, the startup on a mission to save people money when they buy or sell a home. Prevu's industry-leading Smart Buyer™ rebate makes it possible for homebuyers in New York City to receive a cash-back, commission rebate of up to 2% of their purchase price with a seamless, end-to-end buying experience and the expert advice of a dedicated, salaried agent. Sellers see significant savings as well with Prevu’s Smart Seller™ fair, full-service listing commission.   In order to elevate discussion around the important technological innovations taking place in the real estate industry, Thomas lead the effort to develop a podcast entitled “Real Estate Is Your Business” in partnership with MouthMedia Network™and serves as one of the podcast's co-hosts. During weekly conversations, Thomas and his co-host discuss transformative topics with the innovators, entrepreneurs, and thought leaders at the forefront of the modernization of the real estate industry. Episodes of “Real Estate Is Your Business” are available on Apple iTunes, Google Play, and Stitcher.   Prior to his roles as an entrepreneur and thought leader in the real estate technology industry, Thomas spent over a decade in financial markets and has broad experience investing in public technology companies at asset management firms and top-tier investment banks. This experience was global including opportunities at elite firms such as SAC Capital, JPMorgan, and Citigroup in the United States, as well as Jabre Capital Partners in Switzerland. Thomas holds a BS in Finance & Accounting from New York University's Leonard N. Stern School of Business.   Outside of the professional arena, Thomas has been dedicated to charitable giving in areas of education, ending child poverty, and pancreatic cancer research. Combining an interest in supporting education and encouragement of careers in technology, he is a supporter of a new, Austin-based charity named Code2College that is focused on dramatically increasing the number of girls, under-represented students of color, and low-income students who enter STEM undergraduate programs and careers. In addition to this, Thomas has been a regular donor for more than ten years to Children International and The Lustgarten Foundation.   Links to learn more about Prevu & “Real Estate Is Your Business" Prevu Smart Buyer™ Rebates: http://www.prevuapp.com/buyer   “Real Estate Is Your Business” podcast website: http://www.realestateisyourbusiness.com   “Real Estate Is Your Business” episodes on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/real-estate-is-your-business-real-estate-technology/id1318995625 Listen to another #12minconvo

Smart online brokerage enable commission rebates via an end-to-end Platform… Thomas Kutzman, Co-Founder of Prevu (a smart online brokerage focused on saving people money) and host of “Real Estate Is Your Business” podcast, joins Scott Pollack and Pavan Bahl in the MouthMedia Network studios powered by Sennheiser.Better Technology. Better Service. Best Commission Rebates. Kutzman touches on how commission rates too high in real estate, with rates in the US/NYC being double and triple than other developed countries, and how his experiences along with his co-founder Chase Marsh led to creating a solution with Prevu. He continues that in New York City the average real estate price is $1.5-2 Million with high commissions, and how it really is not free to be represented by buyer’s agent because it’s built into the price because of commission split with buyer’s agent. How Prevu gets up to two-thirds back on commissions of buyer’s side to the customer, receiving money back as a commission rebate check. It is not because of a lesser service, instead using technology for better experience for buyers and to make agents more efficient, plus a lower internal cost structure. Controlling the consumer experience and the quality of service and interaction. Despite some 30,000 licensed agents in NYC, 10% of them are doing 90% of work. The Prevu brand acquires leads and customers digitally, and provides more stability and experience/activity for Prevu agents. Plus, why it is a scalable model, and best for major markets.Engineering a smarter buying experience How Kutzman has been looking at it through the lens of other industries have changed like travel and financial, changing the way agents com into the industry and their expectations of stability, and why you’ll never learn a profession doing it part time. Prevu’s compelling value proposition, the impact of the new tax reform on real estate, and why it won’t impact most people. And, making use of a commission rebate, and expanding to other markets.Charitable giving, learning, and treating people well Personal questions cover giving back, a focus on charitable giving, Children’s International, and Code2College which encourages STEM careers at a high school level for underprivileged and minority teens, and how encouraging tech careers at earlier ages leads to greater success. The NYU Violets, how Kutzman was encouraged to save and buy a property instead of having cancelled rent checks, making sure if you didn’t know something, go take a class to learn it. How there are a lot of great real estate people, and a lot of great technology people, but few have a lens on both areas. As time goes on, more people will know both. The meaning of success, a great mentor, treating people the right way serving you well, “The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari”, and “Principles”.  

Matt Stephenson, Executive Director and Co-Founder at Code2College, joins hosts Sherryl Kuhlman and Katherine Klein to discuss his mission to provide access and opportunities in Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics (STEM) fields to students from underrepresented backgrounds in tech: girls, students of color and from low-income backgrounds on Dollars and Change. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Matt Stephenson, Executive Director and Co-Founder at Code2College, joins hosts Sherryl Kuhlman and Katherine Klein to discuss his mission to provide access and opportunities in Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics (STEM) fields to students from underrepresented backgrounds in tech: girls, students of color and from low-income backgrounds on Dollars and Change. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.