Virtual Gallery Walk- Economic Inequities by Abigail Salazar

It's really sad to see those numbers

2024-06-27 00:20:04 UTC

How advances in technology and how they may replace jobs will directly impact poc workers

2024-06-27 00:22:03 UTC

I believe it would be so much better in 2040 with more POC entering into industries that had very low representation of people like us

2024-06-27 00:23:08 UTC

interesting to see the disparaties further form past ethnicity and into gender (ex: slide 8 wage gap numbers)

2024-06-27 00:23:23 UTC

The statistics show how the system has failed minorities.

2024-06-27 00:24:49 UTC

Opportunities

2024-06-27 00:25:39 UTC

Promoting diversity in tech and high-growth sectors: Given the economic power of the tech industry and the evidence that diversity drives economic progress, there's an opportunity to create more inclusive hiring practices and support systems for people of color in these sectors.

opportunity : higher education --> work force --> upward mobility

2024-06-27 00:26:05 UTC

(source NBC News, "Latino students make up most of the nation's growth in college degreesHispanics represent nearly 80% of the growth in the number of degrees attained in the last five years, though they still lag behind other groups.")

2024-06-27 00:27:39 UTC

It's amazing to me how I'm like 'this makes sense actually'. I think all the airports I have been to have people of color working as janitors, coffee shop attendants etc. But when something like covid happens, no one needs airports meaning that these people are the most affected which is unfortunate because with the money they make, they probably live with little savings. This means that there aint no generational wealth being created here. I think it might take a bit of time and a definitely a lot of change to see people of color holding those good and secure jobs that won't be replaced by some pandemic or tech advances.

2024-06-27 00:27:41 UTC

What stood out to us? Gaps between racial equity now and where we will be in 2040?

My racial group no longer being a minority is difficult to wrap my head around

Where do we see opportunity to drive progress?

Even with these projections in population, it begs the question of if growth in economic status for minority groups will follow suit or not. Looking at the pay gap and median net worth statistics, it is difficult to be optimistic that it will

Pressure to succeed and be a positive example for our community. We need change.

2024-06-27 00:28:28 UTC

2024-06-27 00:29:03 UTC

I was not too shocked(just a bit shocked) with the disparity in gender and ethnicity. Still, it seems like there might not be as much effort to change these statistics by different companies, despite having DEI initiatives, which raises many questions for me. How can we take up space and create these opportunities for ourselves?

Alot has really stood out to me but one that stands out the most is how bad the effect of the pandemic on Blacks and Hispanics but almost non to white.

2024-06-27 00:29:42 UTC

Feelings

2024-06-27 00:30:07 UTC

Our group talked about how even though these statistics are discouraging we can find some comfort in the fact that each one of the 2040 Fellows here is working toward breaking from this status quo

2024-06-27 00:34:34 UTC

to answer the question about opportunities to drive racialized economic progress, I think as people of color in tech, we should be motivated to be creators. it's not easy but if there is an opportunity to create employment for yourself by means of a start-up anytime in your career, try it out. it might be harder to influence big companies to take diversity seriously but if you start your own thing, it might be easier to build something with people you share the same vision of racial equity with.