Pull up for BIPOC Women in Tech!

Hello! We are Erika and Krizia, founders of Femmecubator.

In 2021, we launched a program called Women Excel Labs, and hosted our first tech cohort of 8 BIPOC women breaking into a career in tech. For 8 weeks, mentors and the cohort team together built our first digital project, Femmecubator.com. After the program, 6 out of 8 students got hired within 6 months! Most alums landed jobs in Google, Spotify and Optum among others!

Femmecubator's call to action is to bridge the gender and racial gap in tech through mentorship! Did you know that in Silicon Valley, only 12 % of Black and brown women are in computing roles (according to a Kapor Center report).

What are we building? What is Open Sprints?

We are launching the Open Sprints site and Fellowship Program to expand our efforts. It is a project built by technologists for technologists.

Product
We built our first open source website: https://www.opensprints.tech
This site will be Femmecubator's flagship product and project aggregator. As the site grows and scales, we run adjacent monthly workathons to enlist cohort fellows how to build digital products for social good.

Fellowship Program and Event
In 2024, we are partnering with Flatiron School NYC to enlist 5 fellows to help build Equity UI, an open source design toolkit that technologists use to build awesome websites. To launch this, we are hosting our hackathon on March 09, 2024 in New York City. For details, check out femmecubator.org

What We Need & What You Get

Grassroots start, big impact! Our first program was made possible by individual contributions from friends and family, like you. And we want to thank you for continuing your support with PERKS!

On Giving Tuesday, individual donors will get some goodies.

For $19, supporters get the Open Sprints sticker pack

For $39 and up, supporters get the Wise Charlie Mental Models Card deck

For $49 and up, supporters get both the Wise Charlie Card Deck and Stickers!

Outside of Indiegogo, we are raising up to $10,000 in grant money every season:
- to run the Open Sprints Hackathon event in March 2024
- to operate the program, incentivize mentors, tech leads;
- to provide each fellow a learning stipend.

The Impact

Femmecubator envision an inclusive future in Tech by adhering to our team principles:

Promote Open Source building. Project-driven mentorship can accelerate learning from theory to real world.

Expand networks through mentorship. Our growing list of volunteer have devoted at least 30 pro-bono hours to conceptualize, build and scale this event.

Advocate for BIPOC women, build future leaders. Every member is a future mentor. As members upskill, they move up to become future mentors at Femmecubator and leaders of their respective fields.

Other Ways You Can Help

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Open Sprints: A Collaborative Workspace for Aspiring Technologists

By Femmecubator, Inc.

Open Sprints: A Collaborative Workspace for Aspiring Technologists

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