The Reasons Why There Aren't More Black Engineers In Silicon Valley
Maybe the problem isn't lack of candidates, maybe it's that the pipeline is broken.
Joshua Mann is something of an anomaly in the technology industry. He's a black engineer. In a report in the International Business Times, Mann, who is on his way to earning a PhD at Purdue to eventually go on to design rocket engines that could transport humans to Mars, is held up as an example of the appalling lack of diversity in Silicon Valley.