Bringing Some Color to the Land of Google

Being Black at Google 

Black employees at the tech giant are building their own community in an industry known for its lack of diversity.

BY: NIGEL ROBERTS

Posted: Sept. 15 2015 3:00 AM

 

Google employees Jackson Georges, Torie Bates, Willie Lamar, Chris Clark, Larisse Voufo and James Goree teach children in Charleston, S.C., about computer science during the Black Googlers Network annual outreach trip in August 2015. COURTESY OF GOOGLE

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t’s a challenge for African Americans working in California’s Silicon Valley to have a sense of community. Clennita Justice has worked for several technology companies there over the past 25 years.

“At many of those companies, you could go for days without seeing another black person,” says the senior engineering program manager, who now works at Google.

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