(soft music)
- Good morning, ladies and gentlemen,
techie geeks,
everybody out there.
She introduced me as Alicia Carr.
My talk is about
how I got to this point in my life.
I did not expect this to happen,
but this is something that
every person need to hear how social
development changed my life.
You could follow me on Twitter
@fineblkwoman.
I do have a blog called
Coffee, Women, and Tech.
I talk to women about
being in technology,
and not realizing that
they're in technology
when they work in the tech community.
I also want to acknowledge
Women Who Code Atlanta.
As you can see
these are all my sisters with I.
This is at a hackathon
(mumbles) for all women.
We had 100 Women Who Code
that came out that had no experience.
80% of the women did not have
no experience in hackathon,
so we expose women to them at this event.
What's my elevator pitch?
My elevator pitch is
I'm the first
African American self-taught
iOS developer that created the first
Domestic Violence App
for the State of Georgia
at the age of 51.
(applause)
So it's crazy how I have always
been in technology,
but the crazy thing was that
I've always been an Apple fanatic.
I was standing in line
getting my second generation iPad
I met this 16-year-old boy.
I was like, you know, I'm old school.
No parent in their right fuckin mind
would be able to afford $800 for an iPad.
That's a car loan payment,
that's your mortgage,
so I asked him I said,
"So how did you get this money?
"Wash some cars?
"Mow some lawns?"
And he's like "No, I built an app."
I'm like, "Oh, so you must
"have been Harvard, you know,
"16 years old you must be,
"you know, Harvard, you know, Yale."
He said, "No, I learned
it off of YouTube."
I said to my husband I said,
"Shit, that's what I want to do."
Time passed by.
I was like, okay, what am I gonna do?
I'm getting tired of my job.
I was working in an environmental company.
I was doing their tech work
as well as with (mumbles)
My husband came to me and he said,
"Why don't you go apply
"to school to learn iOS."
I said, "Sure, okay, whatever."
So y'all still can hear me, right?
I went ahead and started
doing my research,
looked at some schools.
Big Nerd Ranch was located in Atlanta,
but they wouldn't take me in because
you had to pay for the whole thing
including the hotel and I was like
why am I gonna give you money for a hotel
when I live down the street from y'all?
That's not gonna happen.
I reached out to a meetup group in Atlanta
called Atlanta iOS Developers Group,
found a mentor he helped me with
the Big Nerd Ranch book,
which I wasn't too good at.
I hate reading,
and every time I read I was skipping
over something creating this app.
I'm learning Objective C
because this is the first time
I'm learning Objective C.
Objective C took me
a year and half to learn
because I didn't feel confident enough
to believe that I knew what I was doing.
As a woman we have to
build that confidence.
Men y'all more than confident than us.
My problem was did I have the ability
to learn Objective C?
It was September 2013
somebody posted a bootcamp on
the actual meetup for an iOS developer
for $125 for a bootcamp
it was a three-month bootcamp,
which y'all know right now
if I pay $125 for a bootcamp
that shit is overpriced right now.
Actually, that three months
learning Objective C I learned it,
understood it, had no problem with it.
At the end of that time
I reached up to my mentor
I was like, "Well, shoot, you know,
"I finished up
"the tutorial I don't know what to do."
He said, "Why don't we work together,
"and build a domestic violence app?"
I started crying because
in my family, my friends I've lost
a girlfriend from domestic violence.
She got shot in her driveway.
My mother was a victim,
my aunt was a victim,
my daughters were victims
of domestic violence.
My best friends were victims
of domestic violence.
I knew then that when he mentioned it
that was something I needed to do.
Me and him had a conflict
on how we wanted it built,
so I went rogue.
I did that shit on my own.
What I did is I did a lot of research
to figure out what should be in there,
so when I did that the first version
of the app was called
The Purple Pocketbook.
My son helped me build it for Android.
Now me and him bumped heads with it,
but he did do it for me,
and succeeded in completing it,
so that version
it's actually still on Google Play.
I had to re-change the name because
there was a conflict of interest
with purple purse which is Allstate,
so they reached out to me,
and told me I had to.
They said it was a conflict,
and I needed to change the name,
so I had to change the name
across the board,
but the only place it hasn't changed
is Google Play.
She's there she knows.
In 2014 I built the app in three months,
tried to submit it to Apple.
All hell broke loose with that.
Apple rejected me too many damn times,
and it was because the size of the app
the screen size
were wrong,
so when I was in there I was building it
the long way the bigger way
the screen size
when the phone was still smaller,
so I had to go in,
and change all the screen size
to what the app was actually
the phone size was,
and that took a couple of hours.
I fixed it, submitted it,
it was approved in Apple on May 2nd.
I could never forget that day.
Never forget a day when it took you
months to submit it.
Later on, 2015 we had to change
the name to PEVO,
so the original app is now
called Purple Evolution PEVO.
Of course, then Women Who Code came along.
Around the time I was building the app
I was having problems.
One of the members of Women Who Code
who is not a developer
helped me fix the problem,
so we went to Starbucks,
and we went through the Apple forum
and we found out what the problem was,
and that's how I came a part of
Women Who Code
because I realized that
when I reached out to the men
it was moreso I felt uncomfortable.
I felt that
it was an emotional thing because
some of the men were
being very controlling.
I didn't feel comfortable
talking to them.
I'm building this app.
I was already in emotional strain
because it was a domestic violence app,
and I needed somebody to actually say
sit down let's go do it.
We found the issue let's fix the issue,
and that's how I became a member
of the Women Who Code.
I created a group in Women Who Code
called Women iOS Developers Group
to help women to learn Objective C.
From there them helping me with the app,
and making it more
successful was everything.
Once it was fixed I was so happy.
I was just so happy,
so once I got there and did my group
one of the directors said,
"Hey, Alicia.
"Hey, do you want,
"hey, we got tickets to go
"to WWDC '15 it's a scholarship.
"Do you want to apply?"
I was like, "Hell, yeah.
"I'm gonna apply, yeah."
Who don't want to apply
for a free scholarship?
I was paying for everything
for what I heard.
I was, "Yeah, let's do it."
At first we were going back and forth.
They asked me do I have app,
yes, I do, blah, blah, blah,
and then I got the actual invite saying
I'm going to WWDC '15 for free.
All hell broke lose in my house.
My children is all grown up,
but me and my husband
was like dancing around.
He was like "Damn it we're going to WWDC,
"we're going to WWDC."
I was like, "Actually
I was going to WWDC,"
but no matter what
my husband still went with me.
He got his ticket.
They gave us a hotel.
We stayed in a hotel.
He didn't have a ticket to the event,
but he did get to go, you know,
they allowed him to
sneak into other things like
the scholarship event and stuff like that.
So while he's at the scholarship event
before that what I did was
I had a mentor he was amazing.
I told him I said, "I'm going to Apple,
"and guess what?
"I'm gonna be the woman there with
"the nice skirts,
"and I'm gonna be dressed up.
"I'm gonna have high-heel shoes.
"I'm gonna be cute."
He's like, "Alicia, they don't give a damn
"about your high-heel shoes and dresses."
He said, "Go to sell your product.
"Talk about your app.
"Get a T-shirt put on the T-shirt
"ask me about The Purple Pocketbook."
I said, "Okay."
He said, "If nobody asks you about it
"I'll buy the T-shirts."
I said, "Okay, I got you,"
but what I did was
I did a little something else.
On the back of the T-shirt I said,
"Thank you WWC," which is Women Who Code
"for giving me a scholarship to WWCD '15."
I was so happy I was just so happy.
I sent it to everybody.
Apple, Women Who Code, my girlfriends.
I sent it to everybody,
and this is what it looked it.
When I got there
Apple was looking for me.
They said, "We want to highlight you
"at a keynote."
I said, "Okay," so when they say
highlight me as a keynote I was like
you know how we take pictures,
and it goes to the screen
right before the event I said, "Yeah."
It was like, "We want
to put you in there."
I said, "Okay," he said,
"But you have to be out there
"by 5:30 in the morning.
I'm like, "Okay."
We got out there about 5:45.
I was exhausted,
so what happened is this.
Apple had me on the keynote,
and that's exactly what they did.
I was the first black woman
to be highlighted
at the keynote on 2015,
and actually the first one
they put their name on.
They put my full name on,
but they put my name out there,
which was amazing,
so I was already excited about that.
Life went on.
They contacted me again next year.
This time they wanted to find
people that actually built
the app for social cause.
You know Apple have all the data.
They went through everybody
in their app store.
They now are down to a couple of hundred.
Then they interviewed them
it went down to less than a hundred.
Then they contacted me.
The documentary company
contacted me through an email.
I thought this was some
crazy ass woman stalking me,
so I was like
I'm not gonna email you back.
I'm gonna call you just to verify
that the number works.
I called her up her name was Alisha.
She tells me "We want to interview you.
"We want to talk about you,"
so we did an interview over the phone.
Then we did an interview on Skype.
Then I had to send her pictures,
and I was rushing this because
I really didn't give a damn.
I didn't think it was real,
so I basically it's like,
she calls me up and said,
"I need the pictures now.
"I need the pictures now.
"I'm flying out to see you."
I'm like why the hell you gonna do that?
So I sent a picture of my family,
my kids, and everybody.
She came in.
She interviewed people around me.
She was waiting for a reply
from the director and it was like,
"Apparently, you know,
"it doesn't look like they're interested."
I was like "Yes, thank you Jesus."
So I was happy.
I was doing my other thing,
setting up, working other things
with Women Who Code,
and I also had got a scholarship
to go to Google I/O.
While I was there at the keynote,
which was less than 15 minutes to start
I get a call from
the documentary people.
We're coming to Atlanta
Memorial Day Weekend.
"Well, Babe, you can't do that
"Memorial Day Weekend that can't happen."
She's like, "What's the problem?"
"Kids get out of school everybody's gone."
They wanted all my friends.
I'm like, "Babe, you can't do that."
She said, "Well, in California
"we stay at home."
"No, this is Georgia.
"Everybody get rid of their kids."
So all my friends couldn't be there,
but all my children
was able to be there,
so with that
I had to have the app, also,
more current to Apple's standards
for them to even put me in the video,
so I was communicating with somebody
at Apple to actually help me fix
the app to make it current.
I was crying because I have
Objective C and Swift in here.
It wasn't playing nice,
and I was like panicking,
so the guy who I was talking to he said,
"Alicia, would you let me see my code?"
I said, "I will have to
"cut off your pinky toe.
"No anybody see my shit."
He said, "No problem."
I sent him the link.
He came to Atlanta,
and he actually
helped me fix my code in one day.
I was so worried about the fact that
my code was so ugly.
It wasn't clean and I was like
"I'm sorry.
"It's not what I wanted you to look at.
"I'm embarrassed how my code look."
He said, "Alicia, your code is better
"than any other developers
"I'm working with right now,"
so I was all right with that.
After that was all done
he fixed everything.
They had me go crazy places.
They had me run up and down the street,
but I'm gonna show you
what happened with it.
I hope I have sound with this
I really do.
- Hello world.
- So, this is the first computer
that I coded on.
- [Peter] In the beginning,
my biggest challenge
was not having access to a computer.
- The first line of code
I wrote was a bouncing ball.
It would bounce around the screen,
hit the edges, and then come back again.
- I think the first one was,
like, a to-do list.
It was a to-do list.
- I remember the first time I did it,
when it worked and it was, like, magical.
- [Moustafa] I can do anything with code.
Anything I can think about, I can do it.
- In Beirut, we experience
power outages every day.
So let me see if I can just do
a simple algorithm that can provide
the electricity cutoff time.
- [Henriette] It shouldn't
cost life to give life.
What if we compress all these
health guidelines into small movies?
- [Alicia] I am one person
that saw a problem,
and created a solution
to stop or assist a woman
in domestic violence.
- [Markus] What we wanted,
what we needed didn't exist.
So at some point you just say,
"Okay, well, let's do it ourselves."
- [Tom] Let's make an app.
- Well, when I first start an app
I have to have a plan.
- [Daniel] We start with
that little glimmer,
that seed of a new, fresh idea.
- [Josh] There's this fear of code
like it's so hard,
or it's inaccessible,
but actually, it's not.
- Someone who doesn't
even know code at all,
if they really studied
some simple Swift code
they would probably be able
to understand it.
- [Daniel] Anything's possible,
and it all comes from that first step.
- Launching the app
was a big moment, actually.
- I told everyone about it.
I'm like, "Download my app.
"It's on the App Store."
- [Alicia] I was dancing.
I called all my girlfriends
that I'd cried to.
- It's such a crazy feeling,
because it's so many emotions,
so many wishes, so many dreams.
- I always tell my students,
"Do you have Beirut Electricity?
"My son made it.
"He built it."
And the girls, they're, "Is he single?"
- [Henriette] By the end of 2016,
one million women will have a safe birth
due to the Safe Delivery app.
- [Markus] If people come together
in public spaces,
it creates a kind of happiness,
and it creates a kind of, like,
healing effect for the soul.
- [Kiera] Don't touch my code.
"Dear Kiera, young people like you
"are tomorrow's leaders.
"You inspire me and give me
"tremendous hope for the future.
"Michelle and I wish you all the best.
"Sincerely, Barack Obama."
- These tools are something
that we desperately need
when trying to change the world.
- I think the more people
who can learn to code,
learn to build apps,
the more problems can be solved.
- I feel like I'm creating stuff that
can actually change the way people live,
which is super awesome.
- I want to be this amazing coder,
this off-the-chain senior developer
where everybody comes to me and is like,
"Can you fix this?"
And I'm like, "Yeah."
Like, I go in there,
I just type up the code,
and "Pow, pow! Da, da, damn!"
And like, "Wow! You can do this! Yay!"
- Again, I've made history
by being
the first black women to be highlighted
in an Apple how would you say video.
The other girl, Kiera,
was also the youngest.
Well, she's the youngest black woman,
young girl to be highlighted
in Apple as well.
Kiera has been doing apps
I mean she does apps all the time,
and I'm so proud of her because
I told her, I said,
"We need to get you to speak more
"as a young girl at conferences to explain
"to people like y'all out there
"that women, young girls
"are very, very passionate."
When you talk about code,
I mean, I love code, you know.
It's like I'm a dyslexic
person with the code,
but then let's get to the real part
of being a women developer.
In tech, things have changed from
stereotypical hoodie wearing,
nerd glasses wearing,
gadget obsessed,
over the latest hot gadgets, that's me.
This is not only men.
Today there are women who are more into
tech trends than men,
but before I get into the facts
let's get into the history.
Before I ask the question
here is some historical data
on coding and hardware that is true.
So if you imagine computer programming
as young men, yeah, that's true,
that is very true,
but it hasn't always been that way.
Decades,
women
pioneers are computer programmers,
but that's a part of history
that not everybody know about,
so women created code and programmed
because men felt that
coding was an admin job.
That is true and this is the thing
that I think that me and Kim
we talked about this,
and we talk about this a lot
in our women community.
Ada Lovelace.
I'm gonna just give you the names.
I'm gonna read off of this,
and if y'all need to do research
this is where y'all need to do research
because this is just a snap bit
of Ada Lovelace.
Ada Lovelace is the woman who created it.
She's the start of all of this.
Women Who Code and all these other
women organizations make sure that
our women are aware of these issues,
aware of the historical
information of programming
and coding came from.
Then there's Jean Jennings Bartik.
She was hardware as well as software.
Just to see the fact that
they had their hands on it.
A lot of these women didn't even
at that time know of each other.
Grace Hopper.
As women we all know Grace Hopper
from Anita Borg Institute.
Grace Hopper is the one
that came up with "bug,"
"debugging" because there was
moths in the computers,
so if you hear the word debugging
you have to remember that Grace Hopper
is the one that created that,
so then you talk about
the human computers.
Katherine Johnson is the first
black woman from NASA.
Everybody should know this.
If you haven't seen Hidden Figures,
and I've watched it 10 times.
That's one of my favorite with
The Color Purple,
two of those are my favorite,
but I continue to watch it,
and each and every time I watch it I cry
because I can relate to so many things
that's in there that as
a woman relates to me,
so these are women that y'all
need to do your research on,
so when you go and I'm going to say this
when you go back to work,
and when you'll start saying things
you can be the most knowledgeable one
to the men, "Oh, yeah, Grace Hopper.
"She created the word debugging."
Then the guys is like, "That's not true."
And you could say, "Do your research."
So now you know.
So think about every time
you write on a computer,
play music files,
or add up numbers with
your iPhone calculator
you are using tools that might not exist
without a woman,
women in technology.
(applause)
I'm gonna ask this question.
Would you hire this person?
I want you to read that.
This person has touched a computer,
an IBM punch card when
she was in high school.
MsDos Dbase.
Got her first job as
a database programmer.
Worked on hardware.
Learned HTML.
Went to school to learn Oracle/C++.
Learned Java.
This person love to code, love technology.
Would y'all have hired this person?
How many people would hire this person?
Raise your hand.
That's my resume.
This is why you wouldn't hire me.
This is where unconscious bias set in.
I have interviewed with some of
the major companies
where I live at in Atlanta,
some in California,
but Apple acknowledged me as a developer.
Apple acknowledged me,
and told me how good I was
when they highlighted me twice,
but yet nobody will hire me because
of those three vices.
What's more is that I love to code.
I love technology.
I do a talk on home innovation
because my whole house
is automated with technology
using IFTTT, skills, all that shit,
and that's because of my husband,
but when I go for an interview,
and I tell them that I built an app,
and there's men that has not built an app,
and I built the app for social cause
I still get the question of
what's the syntax?
Do you know what a
function, a loop, array?
I'm like, "Dude, I built this app."
I haven't, you know, coded in a little bit
because I'm pushing this app
I'm looking for a job,
but yet because I don't know it
I don't get the job,
so that app don't mean nothing,
but if a male had the same skillset,
but didn't build an app
they will get the job,
and I'm more experienced than them.
I have the product out there.
I had somebody ask me about localization.
She mentioned that I put all
the different languages in there.
That shit wasn't easy,
but I've done that, like,
that was in 2015.
How the hell am I
gonna remember that in 2016?
So that becomes a challenge for me
as being a developer.
Now let's talk about the statistics.
Only 16% of white women
are computer programmers,
and software engineers.
Only 5% of Asian women are in
computer programming
and software engineers.
Only 5% of women of color,
and that 5% is included with Hispanic
women as well with that 5%.
Then less than 1% of women
are mobile developers,
and less than 1% of that is me,
so there's not too many women my age
are into technology.
Not that it's sad,
but I love technology.
I notice some people out here
that got, like, moms and dads,
you know, that's probably my age,
and don't know nothing about technology,
but you got to teach them
how to use the iPhone.
Here's some questions that I really want
everybody to ask themselves.
Why are you not considering women ability
when their resumes are on your desk?
There's a lot of people that look at
women's resume and they
question their abilities.
One example is that I met
a young lady in Seattle at a conference,
and she's like her and her boyfriend
applied for the same job.
She's smarter than him.
She has more skills than him.
They pass over her
resume and interview him.
Then he came to her and said,
"They're interviewing me.
"I need to learn this code."
She's, like, "Hell, no,
"I'm not teaching you this code.
"Have the damn book I learned from."
I mean, she's mad, I would be mad, too.
I'd be, like, "Why the hell?
"Oh, you think he that good.
"Okay, then you go ahead,
"and you prove to them
"that you're that good."
We see a lot of that
when I talk to a lot of women.
Why are women and people of color,
and white man asks the same questions.
That's another thing that's
not across the board.
How do you know a person
doesn't fit in your culture
during an interview?
Another thing is that
women don't lie on their resumes.
If we put our hands on it,
we won't and if we don't know it fully
will not put that on our resume
because the chances of us being
questioned about it is gonna be
very highly happening,
period.
If a man put it on it
it doesn't make a big deal.
That's the issue that we deal with.
Why are women not being promoted?
I was at a conference,
and this one guy said,
"Oh, I love Women Who Code,
"and I have women working for me,
"but the problem I have with women is
"they take off time
"to take care of their children."
That's the wrong thing to tell me
because right then I was, like,
"You are talking to
"the wrong woman right now"
because I want to say,
"What the hell is wrong with you?"
One thing women is we are everything.
We do everything.
We do everything.
Men, y'all don't do everything.
We take care of our children,
we take care of you,
we take care of the house.
Some of us take care of the bills.
I gonna tell you right now
when I was working
I've been married 36 years.
My husband don't know how to ...
My husband, I love him to death,
please don't let him hear this video.
I get up at four o'clock in the morning,
and cook his breakfast.
I fix his lunch,
and I make sure he's in the car
with his green tea to go to work.
While I was learning iOS Objective C
I got up at five o'clock in the morning,
did the same thing,
learned how to code in three months,
and still built that app.
A lot of men don't understand that
that women who push you off to work,
and help you get there,
also have the challenges
when they go to work
of being what is unconscious
bias affecting her,
so you got to understand that
if you see that happening
just imagine that woman in your office
going through the same thing.
There's a lot I mean we're taught
that men are the men of the household.
They pay the bills.
They take care of the wife.
You take care of the children.
You take care of the house,
but then you got to understand
that same man that she's working for
have that same bias thinking,
so you have to really change it.
Right now men are now being
more active in the family,
but that's not being hold against them
when they have to go
take their child to a doctor,
whereas, a woman that's being held
against her when they got to go take
their child to a doctor,
so we have to always think about
that unconscious bias.
It's not that you're bad.
We all have an unconscious bias.
That's what our brain do.
Okay, I'm gonna give
you a perfect example.
My conscious bias is
I hate to see men pants
hanging off their ass,
so one day I was driving home,
and I saw this man pants
hanging down to his
underneath his ass,
and I'm slowing down saying,
"Hey, pull your damn pants up,"
so, you know, I know he heard me,
but he ignore me.
I got a quote in here.
Again, not listening
to women's ideas in meetings.
I hear a lot of women
going through that right now.
Then the understanding is that
the more that you
make women feel uncomfortable
that is why the number of women
in technology is going down.
For me it's like
that's another thing
why you wouldn't hire me
because I'll cuss your asses out.
I will actually get fired.
Actually, I got written up for saying ...
I got written up at a job for saying,
"That's fucked up."
And they wrote me up,
I was like, "Why you wrote me up?
"I'm just saying."
This is the things that
because if a man was to say it
it would have been all right.
In the South, that's one thing
in the South that's not supposed to
come out of a woman's mouth.
"If a man talks over you,
"he's being a man."
He's a man if he talk over you.
"If a woman talks over you,
"she's a bossy bitch."
Again, if a woman talk over you
that means she got children
that get on her nerves,
and she is like, "Y'all
need to stop this."
She will say that and that's because
either she got children,
or she got a sibling.
She knows how it is to be
treated a certain kind of way,
and want to get her voice heard.
Something to think about.
How many women are working in your group?
How many people of color
are working in your group?
Why would you hire an
unqualified white male with potential,
but not a woman or person of color
who are qualified?
We see a lot of that, too.
There's several young women
that graduated bootcamp in Atlanta.
Their resume were off-the-chain,
and they were going against males.
Two of the women their
resumes were awesome.
They had excellent projects.
The actual team members of the bootcamp
because they have to
rate everybody's resume,
and they all gave them
high ratings on their resume.
When they went to the interview,
and they were competed against men
neither one of them got selected.
One was Asian, one was Hispanic.
My girl, Adriana, it took her a year
to actually find a job,
but is actually internship.
The other young lady
she felt bad about it,
but then we have certain people
that made it clear that
you don't let that go
you keep going and you never give up.
When a woman or person of color
report to upper management or HR,
there is known to be some bias.
A lot of people have seen that with Uber,
with Facebook,
with Apple
HR, and I've known that
for experience, too.
HR will a always take the side
of the other person,
and that's why you're seeing
a lot of these positions come up
as VP of Diversity and Inclusion
with Google, with Apple
to be the medium between
HR and management.
So what can we do?
Women can't change the problem
in the tech community,
but men you can be the change.
(applause)
I say this because I watched a tech talk,
and it was about this one guy talked about
how domestic violence could be the change,
but it has to be men to do the changing.
It goes with all
communities right now,
and the companies,
for technology we are huge.
I'm telling you right now.
Technology is going to, like,
we are changing the world right now.
We're setting the standards,
and as you can see where
media is holding tech responsible.
I know for a fact Walmart
is having some issues.
They ain't saying it,
and I've seen articles about it.
There's other companies besides that
are having issues, but guess what?
Tech companies are being
the one held responsible,
so now we have to be
the one making the change,
so I'm saying this.
There's men all of you out there
y'all work on a team,
and y'all know that if
you're all men or all women
by just putting one woman
in the middle of that team
that change the numbers to your company,
so that's where I'm trying to
reach out to y'all to say, you know,
think about putting that woman
of technology in there.
Always think about unconscious bias.
Always remember that we all have it.
It's never gonna change,
but then just by thinking about
just putting that one female,
that one woman software
engineer in the mix
can totally change perspectives.
You got to also remember that
y'all need us.
We gave birth to y'all.
We're your sisters,
your mother, your wife,
your daughter,
and I know for a fact I have met many
of y'all men who say if one person
was to hurt their daughter
y'all will go berserk,
so think about
how you talk to women at your job
because y'all don't realize
what you're saying you really don't.
It's cool if it was me I'd laugh it off,
and say, "Dude, you know
"you shouldn't say that, right?"
But it's that awareness that
you have to think about
what you're saying,
and what you're doing.
You need to be our advocate.
If you see something wrong,
or you see something
that you think is disrespectful,
or you see how she look,
or how she feels about it
y'all need to say something, you know.
A lot of times I mean you're around
one of the guys and around the guys
y'all think it's cool,
but just remember,
even if it's just all the guys
it's still not cool you'll still say,
"You know, you shouldn't say that,"
even though, you know, it's funny,
but you shouldn't say that anyway.
So think about
how you can help us
because we cannot do anything.
We cannot change anything
unless we have your support, you know,
because women, yeah, we could fight,
we can argue, we can march,
and you see what happened
when we had the march.
Ain't shit happened.
You're like, "Oh, that's powerful.
"Okay, let's go back to work."
So let's do that.
Let's all work together.
If anything your need
if y'all looking for women
to come into your organization
reach out to a woman of color.
Reach out to the community.
There's plenty of women organizations
out there that can help
y'all put those women in there.
So I want to say
need for you to follow
me in my adventures.
I got a Tech Girl App
it's called TechGirl.
It's actually cool.
It's an iMessaging app
that women talk code.
I don't have a jingle
I was working on that,
but it's about all women of all colors
of all nationalities talking code,
Java, Python, everything
because we don't have
nobody representing us
when it comes to talking about code.
Also, you could follow
me on @fineblkwoman.
I so thank DjangoCon.
They're awesome.
Give it to Django.
They're awesome, all over the world.
Thank you, everyone.
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