Twin Cities technologist sees expanding future for young minorities in IT February 6, 2021 8:00am Text size Copy shortlink:
Steve Buchanan caught a break as a teenager 20-plus years ago when a relative referred him to someone who worked for a small computer-consulting firm.
The connection worked, although Buchanan remembers feeling a little off as the only Black worker in a group of white people. I got my second job because I was in a barbershop and the barber knew an African-American guy who owned an IT firm, Buchanan said. And I got my second job in tech.
A couple of years later, Buchanan became an information technology contractor at Target.