BlackTIDES stays activated! Something for everyone 🥳🧑🏽💻
BlackTIDES stays activated! Something for everyone 🥳🧑🏽💻
This month we have webinars, workshops, buddy systems, celebrations. EVERYTHING!
Fall is fully here and so is a new slate of programming from us. A small update - you’ll start hearing from us on the first Friday of the month as opposed to the first Monday in previous editions. Let’s just get right into it because we have a lot going on this month!
Events
Webinars and Workshops
Sia, our operations lead and a data engineer during the day, will be leading a career webinar and technical session this month.
First, Sia will talk through how to identify and navigate career hiccups and redefine growth on Monday, October 9th 2023 at 5:00pm ET. You can sign up for that here
If you have interesting problems that need solving in intermediate and advanced SQL, sign up and hop on with her on October 21, 2023 at 12 noon US ET to get help. This is a two hour session with the first hour reserved for teaching you something cool in SQL, and the rest of the time will be yours for asking questions.
A New Accountability Buddy System
One thing about our group - we will try any and every thing for the promise of building and serving our community in data. Our co-founder, Kimberly Deas, came up with this idea (and name!) to have a small group of folks meet every so often to catch up on their coding (or other) projects, chat a little, and even get some ideas and help if there are some intersections.
We would like to introduce to you the bi-weekly two hour sessions that are Coffee and Code starting this month. These will be on Saturdays starting at 10 am US ET. Spots are limited and we’d like to make this an enduring safe space, so we’re starting small. You can sign up for the first two sessions on October 14, 2023 and October 28, 2023
🤑💐 Bags and Flowers
This week in lieu of community shared roles, we encourage you to look at these two job boards that are run by two great women and champions for underrepresented communities and Black women in technology. A unique feature of both these job boards is that they are vetted. Companies are checked for their track record in DEIB and bad practices before being considered as partners. They both have other features included in their communities, so take your time to look around these sites for other helpful resources
Frauvis - Black Women in Tech Community by Naya Moss
Diversify Tech - Underrepresented in Tech Community by Veni Kunche
We would also like to send a special congratulations to Dr. Brendesha Tynes, Professor of Education and Psychology and Director of CELDTECH at the University of Southern California Rossier School, for winning the largest federally-funded grant in USC Rossier history at 4.6 million dollars to create a first of its kind digital literacy and mental health platform for K-12 students in the U.S. You can read about it here. Congratulations, Dr. Tynes!
We also welcome anyone who is hiring to share your postings via newsletter@blacktidesdata.com with some contact information. You’re also encouraged to share wins with us so we can amplify Black professionals in data 🔊
Stay in touch with us on Twitter and LinkedIn for updates and resource shares throughout the month and tell us what else you’d like to learn with and from the community. Thank you to the BlackTIDES community for sticking with us in 2023. We’ve had the most consistent engagement and conversations this year, and hope to keep that momentum going into next year.
Until next month. Take care, data fam! 💚🖤❤️