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Friday, October 20 • 4:30pm - 6:00pm
Diversifying the Digital World
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Co-sponsored with the Kairos Fellowship

The digital world, now so fundamental to our lives, has long been a mostly white and male universe. The Kairos Fellowship program is working hard to change that culture by supporting emerging digital leaders of color, providing them with rigorous training, leadership development, mentorship, and on-the-job learning with some of the largest digital campaigning organizations in the country. By bringing more technologists of color into the fray, we can enhance the tools, metrics, and algorithms that shape our digital world to make sure it serves everyone. Hosted by Mariana Ruiz Firmat, Kairos Fellowship Director. With: Kairos Fellows Irna Landrum, Eric Enrique Borja and Mohammad Khan.


Workshop Speakers
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Eric Enrique Borja

Eric Enrique Borja, a second-generation Salvadoran-American, is an alumni and board member of the Kairos Fellowship, which combats racial disparity in the digital movement by training tech-savvy campaigners of color. He is currently working towards a Doctoral degree in Sociology at... Read More →
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Mariana Ruiz Firmat

Mariana Ruiz Firmat, co-founder and Director of Kairos, a groundbreaking on-the-job training program for emerging digital campaigners of color, has a 20-year history fighting for social change as a grassroots organizer, labor organizer, and digital strategist, including as Digital... Read More →
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Mohammad Khan

Mohammad Khan is a Brooklyn, NY-based campaigner and political organizer focused on building the power of marginalized communities. Currently Campaign Director at MPower Change-the U.S.'s first and largest digitally native grassroots Muslim organization, working to build the political... Read More →
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Irna Landrum

Irna Landrum, with deep family roots in Vacherie, Louisiana, but long Minneapolis-based, is an alumni and board member of the Kairos Fellowship, which combats racial disparity in the digital movement by training tech-savvy campaigners of color. Currently a campaigner with Daily Kos... Read More →


Friday October 20, 2017 4:30pm - 6:00pm PDT
Manzanita Room