A coalition of Baltimore tech companies are banding together with the goal of increasing opportunity for people of color in tech, and growing diversity and inclusion in the growing segment of the local economy.
Baltimore Tracks is launching with 22 companies and a set of five initiatives, aimed at sharing and strengthening diversity and inclusion in hiring and workplaces. It’s an effort from key companies within Baltimore’s growing tech sector to address opportunity shortcomings in an industry that has racial divides nationwide, and to do so in a majority-Black city, where generational inequalities often play out along economic lines.
A group of leaders at startups, agencies and growth companies formed the coalition in the months following the nationwide reckoning with systemic racism in the summer of 2020. It was a time when many companies were making statements about their commitments to diversity. They wanted to create something more lasting.
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