Mimi Fox Melton | Source | CEO at Code2040
Mimi Fox Melton
Mimi is the CEO at Code2040, a nonprofit mobilizing the largest racial equity community in tech to dismantle the structural barriers that prevent the full participation and leadership of Black and Latinx technologists in the innovation economy. Her work currently focuses on Code2040’s growth and impact strategy. Before CODE2040, Mimi co-founded and ran Code for Progress, a non-profit coding boot camp that pays adults of color as they learn to code and start careers in social justice tech.
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Most of the time, you see BIPOC candidates being hired into the HR and recruitment space. But in a hiring freeze, you don’t need as many people recruiting candidates, so those people will face layoffs.
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Tech Industry Layoffs May Undo Workforce Diversity Gains
Companies have recently made progress in employee diversity, but cuts due to economic worries are expected to hurt underrepresented workers most.
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