Van Jones Yes We Code

The future is being written in code.

Van jones yes we code. Jones outlined the program s goals to potential contributors during a salon held recently in los angeles. Van jones is co founder of yeswecode a national initiative to help train 100 000 low opportunity high potential youth to become top level computer programmers. The result is an ambitious initiative called yes we code to prepare 100 000 low opportunity youth for careers as web developers and computer programmers. It was this belief that inspired prince s friend van jones to start yeswecode a nonprofit in oakland which is at the forefront of a movement to get more young minorities involved in technology.

Yes we code is helping dozens of organizations around the country that are trying to address high tech s racial and gender gap from black girls code to hack the hood. A new initiative spearheaded by green activist van jones aims to prepare 100 000 underserved minority youth for jobs as computer coders yeswecode looks to close the coding inequality gap. Such training is critical for young people the tech industry is a major driver of job growth. To be truly inclusive our people must be the architects creating that future.

Yeswecode fund launch luncheon splash join van jones yeswecode tess posner techhire sam kapila the iron yard and rodney sampson techsquare labs opportunity ecosystem for the official launch of the yeswecode fund during the 2017 hbcuatsxsw sxsw. The project was spearheaded by former white house green jobs czar van jones and has enlisted representatives from president obama s my brother s keeper initiative and prince yes the musician. The yeswecode fund is a scholarship initiative designed to increase diversity in the tech industry by removing financial barriers. Cnn broadcaster van jones aims to reverse that trend through his yes we code initiative which teaches african american youth to write their own apps and make money for themselves.