Diversifying Tech

The triple crisis of 2020: pandemic, economic convulsion, & the police killing of George Floyd - laid bare the harshly uneven vulnerabilities of people in every sphere of American life. In the soul searching it sparked, the fintech sector found itself reckoning w/ its inheritance of legacy structures and cultures. Finance is male- & white-dominated. So is the technology world. As the two have converged into fintech, a young industry that could have been born diverse has, instead, absorbed the race and gender patterns of its forebears. In this conversation, Jo Ann Barefoot, fintech founder & lifelong champion of innovation for financial inclusion, talks with Cleve Mesidor, founder & CEO of LOGOS and Head of the National Policy Network of Women of Color in Blockchain, about how to do better