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The POCIT Weekly - Thurs, July  4
ARTICLE ✊🏾

Beating The Odds And Raising $650k As Black Women Founders

"Every year around 0.2% of business funding goes to Black women so last year when Joycelyn and I set out to raise $450k whilst I had a very visible baby bump, we knew we’d have a serious fight on our hands… "

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ARTICLE 🙋🏽‍♀️

Becoming A Bad-Ass Engineering Leader: 5 Tried & True Lessons From A Woman of Color

"Yes, I said bad-ass. I went from being just another Indian school girl being taught in a convent, to being a VP of Engineering for three incredible companies in Silicon Valley. While having twin boys who are now 5. So, yeah. I lean into my badassery because I have worked very hard for it.​"

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JOBS 💰

TrussWorks Inc: govsales Project ManagerDelivery Manager (Project Manager) govtech,
Standard Cognition: multiple roles,
Liftopia: Head of Marketing,
VSCO: multiple roles,
Help Scout: HR Operations,
Basecamp: Senior Programmer,
AURA: Web Developer,
Customer.io: Billing Engineer,
The Good Food Institute: IT & Data Manager (Remote),
Sticker Mule : Software Engineer: Site Reliability and Infrastructure,
Ecosia: Country Development Manager, North America (m/f/x),
Mode Analytics: multiple roles,
Netflix: multiple roles, 
Atlassian: multiple roles,
HubSpot: multiple roles,
BetterUp: multiple roles,
Obsidian Security: multiple roles,
Flatiron Health: multiple roles,
AROUND THE WEB 🌍
Facebook's Civil Rights audit says white supremacy policy is ‘too narrow.’

Meek Mill discusses becoming the co-owner of sports apparel retailer Lids and how Jay-Z changed his perspective on business.

Jean Brownhill [who has raised 9.8million for her startup] talks about the battle of obtaining Venture Capital as a Black woman. 
Fed Up With America's Racism, Black American Millennials Are Finding Success in Ghana's Thriving Tech Scene ​
[Narratively]
They Told Me to Get an MBA. I Started a Billion-Dollar Company Instead​ [Inc]
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