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  • What We Build with Power

  • The Fight for Economic Justice in Tech
  • By: David Delmar Sentíes
  • Narrated by: Alex Mitts
  • Length: 4 hrs and 19 mins
  • 5.0 out of 5 stars (1 rating)

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What We Build with Power

By: David Delmar Sentíes
Narrated by: Alex Mitts
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A historically conscious manifesto calling for worker organizing in tech, led by Black and Latinx technologists

What We Build with Power is an urgent call for organizing shared strategies in order to disrupt the tech industry and move toward a more economically inclusive and equitable workforce.

Economic disparities between White, Black, and Latinx workers persist. Activist and organizer David Delmar Sentíes argues that tech is in a position to move beyond empty platitudes and toward an organized workforce that values the economic well-being of Black and Latinx communities.

Delmar Sentíes uses his firsthand experience as the founder of Resilient Coders—a free and stipended nonprofit coding bootcamp that trains people of color from low income communities for careers as software engineers—to highlight how we must identify and dismantle the intentional systemic barriers in tech that are precluding nonwhite people from participating in their cities’ prosperity. He shows how diversity and inclusion initiatives fail, reveals how philanthropic efforts often exacerbate racial inequalities, and argues for a total overhaul of tech culture.

©2023 David Delmar Sentíes (P)2023 Beacon Press
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“Through insights from his remarkable nonprofit, Resilient Coders, David Delmar Sentíes offers a provocative invitation to reinvent the tech industry and our economic future.”—former Governor of Massachusetts Deval L. Patrick

“An incredible breakdown of how oppression and discriminatory systems impact the education and hiring of Black, Brown, and Indigenous communities. David has provided depth, data, experience, and knowledge in one necessary, easy read that details the whys and hows around how you either contribute to or are a victim of systemic barriers, and where progress needs to be made.”—Pariss Chandler, founder and CEO, Black Tech Pipeline

“Finally, a leader in tech workforce development confronts head-on the issue of poverty and race in the industry. Delmar Sentíes is a warrior for equity, and he confronts both our assumptions and our biases in a way that rips away the band-aid solutions that we’ve accepted and leaves us thinking about how we can truly bring equity to the field.”—Sheila Ireland, president and CEO, Philadelphia OIC

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Nice and concise but makes you really challenge yourself

This along with pedagogy of the oppressed has changed my world view. I used to be one of the people that believed formal education was only for those who could get into school and passed the tests necessary. I now believe education shouldn’t be blocked by a paywall and that a lot of what I had been told to believe was part of the problem. Highly recommend.

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