S14:E9 - How to build tech for social justice (Alex Qin)
Dec 28, 2020•43 min•Transcript available on Metacast Episode description
In this episode, we talk about how to build tech for social justice, with Alex Qin, co-founder and CEO of Emergent Works. Alex talks about the challenges she had to face being a woman in tech, how shaving her head caused people to treat her with more respect and launched her on a path toward social justice, and her company’s first in-house app, Not 911.
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