This week we’re rebroadcasting an interview featuring Bärí Williams on the Greater Than Code podcast! 

About Greater Than Code (GTC): For a long time, tech culture has focused too narrowly on technical skills; this has resulted in a tech community that too often puts companies and code over people. Greater Than Code is a podcast that invites the voices of people who are not heard from enough in tech: women, people of color, trans and/or queer folks, to talk about the human side of software development and technology. Greater Than Code is providing a vital platform for these conversations, and developing new ideas of what it means to be a technologist beyond just the code.

In this special episode we discuss:

01:48 - Bärí’s Superpower: Being a Black Woman

05:20 /22:50 - Admitting and Knowing What You Don’t Know

• Intersectionality and Culture

10:00 - Born and Raised in Oakland

• Gentrification
  
  


• Being Connected to Your Roots

19:30 - Unintended Consequences

• Tutorial to Boy Scouts About Getting Stopped by Police
  
  


• Keeping the Kids Alive

33:15 - Where is the Light (In the Technology)

• Technology is the Mirror of the People Creating It
  
  


• Creating an Open Space

42:34 - Getting Organizations to Buy Into the Open Space Concept

48:50 - Who’s Job is it to Educate the Children About Bias

• Allyship
  
  


• Seeing White Podcast

58:47 - Diversity or Inclusion

• Lagging Metric or Leading Metric
  
  


• Draw People In With Inclusion

01:03:59 - Taking Space and Making Space

Reflections:

Arty: Multigenerational roots, becoming your own being, being raised to be proud of yourself and say what you think. Be the roots for the people around you. There has been a loss of grounding.

Chanté: Bärí is the real deal. It takes only a few to change history. Being real is valuable.

Jacob: Wants his son to know that he won’t have to worry when being pulled over, and he should be troubled by that fact.

Bärí: What do you connect to, who do you connect to? What and who are you thankful for? Think about that.

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Learn more about Greater Than Code here

Twitter: @GreaterThanCode

Patreon: GreaterThanCode

Follow Bärí: @BariAWilliams

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CREDITS:

Co-founders + Co-hosts: Chanté Thurmond & Rada Yovovich

Editor: Zaiden Sowle

Instrumental: "Get Rich" By NorfStar