April Christina Curley
A few days before Christmas, April Christina Curley decided to let all of the trauma go and start the new year fresh.
She spent 20 minutes drafting a Tweet thread in a Google doc, posted it, then went back to wrapping presents. When she came back to her phone, it was buzzing nonstop. Her story had resonated not only with Black people in tech, but the world.
The thread detailed Curley’s struggles as a diversity recruiter as she worked to bring more Black and Brown tech talent from HBCUs into the search giant, and her own experience facing discrimination from managers. The revelation that a manager told her she should disclose her Baltimore accent as a disability made headlines internationally. Google declined to comment on the specific claims of Curley’s experience to Technical.ly.
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