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NPower Partners with Citi Foundation, Amazon Web Services, Comcast NBCUniversal and Guardian Life to Prioritize Representation of Women of Color in Tech
Introducing Command Shift, a New Coalition of Leading Fortune 500 Companies Focused on Helping Non-degreed Women of Color Access, Advance and Thrive in Tech Careers
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Given the economic impact from the pandemic on underrepresented women of color and job loss, it s never been more urgent to help them find jobs that pay well above minimum wage;
Citi Foundation joins NPower as a founding member of Command Shift, committed to prioritizing women of color for tech careers, alongside additional steering committee members Amazon Web Services, Comcast NBCUniversal, Guardian Life and World Wide Technology
AWS joins Citi Foundation, Comcast NBCUniversal, Guardian Life, Netscout, Vodafone Americas Foundation, Tata Consultancy Services, World Wide Technology, and others in co-founding the program.
AWS has appointed its head of global inclusion and DEI LaDavia Drane to the board. This is the second large diversity collaboration that it announced this month, as AWS also joined the Dream Collective to launch SheDares, an interactive learning program for women who want to change careers or return to the workforce.
AWS has battled recent allegations of gender and race discrimination after corporate employee Charlotte Newman sued the company and two of its executives for allegedly violating the Equality Pay Act. Newman, who was formerly economic policy advisor to Senator Cory Booker, had been a senior manager at the company since 2017. She also accused managers at AWS of sexual assault.