The CodeNewbie podcast was born from CodeNewbie, an organization which fosters a supportive, international community of people learning to code. Each season, host Saron Yitbarek delivers stories and interviews from people of diverse backgrounds and expertise about their coding journeys, as well as beginner friendly discussions about the tech you should know about.
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Ep. 61 - Brianna and Brianna's Mother (Brianna Fugate)
When she goes to events, she no longer writes her own name on her name tag. Instead, she writes “Brianna’s Mother”. Ronique, the proud single-mother of a coder talks to us about how she supports and advocates for her daughter, and what it’s been like to see her only child take advantage of the many tech opportunities she’s come by. Brianna tells us how she switched from being pre-med to computer science, and got over the intimidation of sitting next to kids who’d discovered coding long before she knew what programming was all about. She tells us her inspiring stories of working at the White House under US CTO Megan Smith, and coding alongside Googlers, all as a college undergrad.
Show Links- Code Comments (sponsor)
- IRL (sponsor)
- Spelman College
- Black Girls Code
- Kimberly Bryant
- Kaya Thomas
- The Pedagogy of the Oppressed
- Megan Smith
- Codeland Conf
- Codeland 2019
Brianna is a computer science major at Spelman College.