'Miracle Territory’: Students Introduced to Black Tech Professionals

Louisville Urban League Young Professionals (Louisville, KY) hosted a workshop to introduce students to Black tech professionals.

Students, young adults and parents gathered on Saturday, May 10 for the Future Forward: Tech Career Pop-Up. It’s also been dubbed a ‘miracle territory.’

“That was the word of today, which is where you take the opportunity to put yourself in a room that’s going to introduce you to people that could transform the trajectory of your life,” said Gregory Mitchell, the vice president of Louisville Urban League Young Professionals.

Two tech professionals were invited to the event to share their journeys, discuss their ventures and give advice. One of them was Louisville native Ricky Mason, the CEO of BrainSTEM and Kentucky Agritech.

“Today’s event was awesome,” Mason said. “It’s amazing whenever I get the chance to talk to young people about their career, their purpose and being intentional about their lives.”

Network N’ Chill’s Co-Founder, Chris Redd, was the other speaker at the workshop.

“I think now understanding that you could be anybody, any background, have the consistency to say, ‘I want to show up today and learn something new,’ and over the next three to six months, build something incredible,” Redd said.

The goal is to show students that there are people who look like them in STEM careers.

According to the American Community Survey, Black people make up 7% of the computing workforce with most being computer support specialists.

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