Tom Chavez in Huffpost Personal for Hispanic Heritage Month
My Mom Sent Me And My 4 Siblings To Harvard. Here's The 1 Thing I Tell People About Success.
"My mom is infinitely proud of all of her children, but I wonder if she wasn’t at that moment just a little bit ashamed of me."
In honor of National Hispanic Heritage Month, Tom Chavez gives a deeply personal account his growing up in Huffington Post. Tom writes:
The tech industry — which brags about hiring the best and brightest — is foolishly missing out on entire pools of candidates because of cultural norms and self-reinforcing dynamics that only let certain types of people into the room.
We have to do better.
One solution? There is an organization called Digital NEST. It takes the kids of migrant laborers in Watsonville and teaches them computer science. I’ve gotten to know some of these kids, and they’re brilliant. A bunch of them now work for me as top-rank software engineers, competing shoulder-to-shoulder with pedigreed engineers from coveted technical universities.
My Mom Sent Me And My 4 Siblings To Harvard. Here's The 1 Thing I Tell People About Success.
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