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Advocating for an Inclusive Future with Rizel Scarlett, Developer Advocate at GitHub
The name of the game is developer advocacy and Rizel Scarlett came to play. Rizel is a Developer Advocate at GitHub and leader of the Employee Resource Group, Blacktocats. She is also the Director of Programs G{Code} House, a place-based initiative aimed at teaching women of color and non-binary people of color to code. In this episode, Cassidy, Zach, and Rizel discuss the evolution of open source, empowering developers, and how to bring more diversity and inclusion into the software community. ------------------- Episode Timestamps: (02:12): Rizel’s day-to-day (05:53): What dev advocacy looks like for Rizel (16:43): Rapid Fire Questions (19:22): Random Segment Generator (22:43): Rizel’s advice for software newbies (28:13): Cassidy’s Sage Advice ------------------- “I want us to take open source more seriously and make sure that it's diverse and inclusive and I think we're going in that right step. There's just all these different opportunities. I'm seeing more black maintainers and stuff like that. I'm just excited for open source and how it can continue to evolve.” – Rizel Scarlett ------------------- Links: G{Code} Twitter - Follow Rizel Twitter - Follow Cassidy Twitter - Follow Zach
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