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Nicole Tinson is founder of HBCU 20x20, an organization that places Historically Black Colleges and Universities students and graduates into companies like Accenture, SpaceX, and Intel. She was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 Social Entrepreneurs list in 2020.
Tinson says she is dropping Google as a HBCU 20x20 partner after a Twitter thread by a former Google recruiter went viral, alleging racism and discrimination at the tech giant.
She asked Google to partner with her company in 2017, but it declined. After the deaths of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd, Tinson says Google reached out to her to get the partnership started.