This Old House Is Being Remade Into A Springboard For Minority Women In Tech

Get the Full StoryIn a rapidly gentrifying, historically black Boston neighborhood, two designers purchased an old Victorian and will establish it as G Code House–a co-living, co-working space for young women of color.

Last summer, Carolle Nau, a designer and creative director at the tech and business incubator SkyLab Boston, spent some time volunteering at a homeless shelter in Roxbury, a historically black neighborhood in Boston. Specifically, she was there to help out with a program that taught young women staying at the shelter how to code. “I was blow away by how thirsty and bright these young women were,” Nau tells Fast Company. But many of them were in their late teens or early 20s–right at the point at which they were beginning to age out of the shelter system.Read Full Story

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