{"id":4832,"date":"2022-03-04T09:52:06","date_gmt":"2022-03-04T17:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vcea.wsu.edu\/student-success\/?p=4832"},"modified":"2024-07-17T11:55:31","modified_gmt":"2024-07-17T18:55:31","slug":"young-black-and-changing-their-industries-for-the-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vcea.wsu.edu\/student-success\/2022\/03\/04\/young-black-and-changing-their-industries-for-the-better\/","title":{"rendered":"Young, Black, and changing their industries for the better"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Black history isn\u2019t limited to a specific month or confined to some bygone era; every day, Black changemakers make their mark by overcoming the odds of a society that, in many ways, is designed to hold them back. Take a look at Black Handshake users who\u2019ve broken into professions where they\u2019re woefully underrepresented and are excited to share their experiences. <a href=\"https:\/\/joinhandshake.com\/blog\/students\/black-history-month-handshake-stories\/?mkt_tok=MzkwLVpURi0zNTMAAAGC8CDlemEvHKN8Ck5IANgA_MSJJR06gl0U0XovS3tmwl0MuKzuCbjVyhy6IssIDPilAXMP1OfxatDghAR-Fd3kVQQtmIY9ZKYIYYH7rfxHSQ\">More information on this blog from Handshake.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"adding-representation-in-elementary-education\">Adding representation in elementary education<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-medium is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-vcea\/uploads\/sites\/3466\/2022\/03\/image_6487327-396x389.jpg\" alt=\"Joshua Redd.\" class=\"wp-image-4834\" width=\"297\" height=\"292\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-vcea\/uploads\/sites\/3466\/2022\/03\/image_6487327-396x389.jpg 396w, https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-vcea\/uploads\/sites\/3466\/2022\/03\/image_6487327.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 297px) 100vw, 297px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Joshua Redd (they\/them) is a recent graduate from Bates College who has their B.A. in Africana Studies. They found Handshake during their first year at university and eventually used the platform to secure a Summer Teaching Fellowship at Uncommon Schools. Education has always been a huge interest of theirs, and they aspire to one day become a principal at a school where they could make a difference. Intentionality in their career is something Joshua values highly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:38px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"breaking-into-the-world-of-venture-capital\">Breaking into the world of venture capital<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-medium is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-vcea\/uploads\/sites\/3466\/2022\/03\/IMG-3915-Original-1-edited-396x528.jpg\" alt=\"Angel Sledge.\" class=\"wp-image-4835\" width=\"297\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-vcea\/uploads\/sites\/3466\/2022\/03\/IMG-3915-Original-1-edited-396x528.jpg 396w, https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-vcea\/uploads\/sites\/3466\/2022\/03\/IMG-3915-Original-1-edited.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 297px) 100vw, 297px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The lack of Black representation in education isn\u2019t the only example of institutional inequity being challenged by young job-seekers. Angel Sledge (she\/her), a graduate from North Carolina A&amp;T, majored in political science in undergrad. After earning her diploma, Angel leapt outside her comfort zone and accepted a role as a venture capital intern\u2014in an industry where Black individuals make up only a fraction of the population. \u201cI saw an advertisement for BVCC (Black Venture Capital Consortium) and that they have also gone through Handshake as well,\u201d she says. \u201c[BVCC] is trying to put Black people into venture capital because we are only 1-2% of that job force.\u201d After learning about the lack of representation in VC, Angel used Handshake to discover new roles that might not have caught her eye previously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Take a look at Black Handshake users who\u2019ve broken into professions where they\u2019re woefully underrepresented and are excited to share their experiences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28782,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[546],"tags":[],"wsuwp_university_location":[332],"wsuwp_university_org":[443],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vcea.wsu.edu\/student-success\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4832"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vcea.wsu.edu\/student-success\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vcea.wsu.edu\/student-success\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vcea.wsu.edu\/student-success\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28782"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vcea.wsu.edu\/student-success\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4832"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vcea.wsu.edu\/student-success\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7292,"href":"https:\/\/vcea.wsu.edu\/student-success\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4832\/revisions\/7292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vcea.wsu.edu\/student-success\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vcea.wsu.edu\/student-success\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vcea.wsu.edu\/student-success\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4832"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vcea.wsu.edu\/student-success\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_location?post=4832"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_org","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vcea.wsu.edu\/student-success\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_org?post=4832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}