ColorStack's In-person Summer Events Opens the Door for New Forms of Community Building

ColorStack is excited to announce an impressive lineup of partners for the 2022-2023 year including many household names like Meta, and LinkedIn.

This past summer, ColorStack hosted five in-person social events in four major U.S. cities. These mixers are significant not only because they allowed Black and Latinx students to build local friendships and industry contacts in a casual social setting.

On August 17th, ColorStack kicked off its second annual Stacked Up Summit that boasted 1,702 attendees with NPS values of 86 and 74 for students and sponsors respectively.

Though imposter syndrome marked much of Ifeanyi’s early college career, his story is one of confidence and tenacity.

Meet Pauli, a software engineering intern at Salesforce in San Francisco that says the Stacked Up summit also served as an entrypoint into ColorStack.

Meet Melissa, a current Oregon State ECampus computer science major and fullstack engineering intern at Twilio!

July’s Fam Friday focused on developing the concrete skills necessary to attain a position at a tech company.

The Stacked Up Summit will feature a truly stacked lineup of speakers, including Amanda Seales of HBO’s Insecure, CodeSignal co-founder and CEO Tigran Sloyan, and Humane co-founders Bethany Bongiorno and Imran Chaudhri.

ColorStack’s Annual Summit Positions the Next Generation Black and Latinx Computer Science Students at the Forefront of the Tech Industry

Now that we’re in the second school year of operation, ColorStack has tripled its portfolio of sponsors who provide us with the resources we need to fulfill our mission.

“Increasing computer science enrollment for Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) students has to start with building community, and nonprofit ColorStack recognizes that...“

“Jehron Petty is a mentor at heart, so when he saw an opportunity to help his fellow computer science classmates, he couldn't pass it up. Petty is the founder and CEO of ColorStack...“

Meet ColorStack member, Nnamdi, a student at George Mason University. Learn why Nnamdi says ColorStack helped him find his tribe in the world of Computer Science.

Meet ColorStack member, Yesenia, a student at Johns Hopkins. Check out how ColorStack helped Yesenia find the direction she needed to succeed professionally.

Meet ColorStack member, Charlie, a Wesleyan University graduate. Learn how ColorStack's Slack community helped him overcome his struggles in one of his Computer Science classes.

Meet ColorStack member, Nia Asemota, a junior at NYU. Read about how Nia says ColorStack helped her find her community within and outside of school.

Meet ColorStack member, Caio Carnauba, a Computer Science and Math double major at Grinnell College. Check out how ColorStack's Slack community helped him during his internship interviewing process.

ColorStack is pleased to announce the addition of Kavita Bala and Raquel Romano to our Board of Directors.

We celebrate the founding of ColorStack and the work we’ve begun to carry out for Black, Latinx, and Indigenous Computer Science students.

Today, we are thrilled to announce that several distinguished companies in technology and finance have partnered with us as founding sponsors.

“Triplebyte, a technical recruiting platform that emphasizes a candidate’s skills rather than background, has incubated nonprofit ColorStack, which aims to increase the number of...“