The organization Black Orlando Tech - also known as B.O.T. - was started back in 2016. The driving vision is to expose at least 10,000 people to the Tech Industry by 2025.
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For Kenya (Robinson), what began as a relaxing pastime turned into a personal mission.The award-winning artist, who styles her last name with parentheses, is behind the (Re)Stock Image Collection Project, which turns ordinary people of color into models.And it all started with some escapist reading.“I love a trashy novel, what they call urban fiction,” said (Robinson), who is based in Gainesville. “It’s not supposed to give you any nutrition but it’s fun and sweet and bubbly.”
Orange County commissioners agreed Tuesday to spend nearly $2 million to fund economic stimulus strategies to develop a road map to diversify the local economy in the wake of COVID-19. Mayor Jerry Demings described the strategy as both an economic “diversification initiative“ and an investment in “social entrepreneurship.