Episodes
Find out about Life as a Developer. We will have 3 members from Coding Black Females - Isabel Costa, Melisha Trout and Denise Dube discussing their role as a developer and how they got there! This was from an Empowerment Day put on for the Black Codher Bootcamp.
Published 10/01/21
Published 10/01/21
Meet Lydia Mangeni Stewart, she transitioned into her first role as a software engineer after completing the Kong x Coding Black Females Fellowship Programme earlier this year, and we get to hear her story! She was interviewed by the AMAZING Tanya Powell! You can view her testimonial here: codingblackfemales.com/impact Tanya: @heytanhey on instagram & twitter Lydia: @warrior_queen1988 on instagram
Published 09/17/21
Join us to discuss stepping into Leadership positions in tech. We will have 4 Black women from the Coding Black Females community discussing taking on Leadership roles, winning awards, taking ownership of your career, and creating changes.
Published 08/11/21
Join us to hear from 3 amazing speakers on how to find the right mentor. If you've been considering becoming a mentor or finding a mentor this is the perfect chance to find out what to look for!
Published 07/28/21
Listen for the upcoming back-to-school drive in collaboration with Lorraine Daley.
Published 07/21/21
In this podcast, listen to Sanchia's experience at the Black Coder Bootcamp and more.
Published 07/07/21
As part of international women's day, we had 5 talks in the world of tech. 
Published 06/23/21
Join us with Head of Computer Science Tessy Mesindi and Computer Science Teacher Nadya French, while they talk about teaching computer science in schools. 
Published 06/16/21
In this event we discussed Neurodiversity*, Chronic Illness, and Disability with four Black women/NBP in the Tech space.  For this panel talk we were joined by 4 speakers in different tech roles who came together to talk about what their experiences have been like, challenges they have faced, and support they have received that has helped them flourish.  This is an important topic to discuss whether it affects you currently, will do in the future, or not at all.  * Neurodiversity usually...
Published 06/03/21
Hear from women in product & design at Brandwatch, they will tell us about how they've build their careers on their own terms, so you can keep rising while being authentically you
Published 05/26/21
This time around, we're joined by Ricardio Thomas to discuss current trends in Technical Recruitment. Ricardo Thomas is a Tech Recruiter & Diversity Champion at Digital Vision Search. He helps interesting fintech, hedge fund & start-up technology companies hire software engineers & build diverse teams. Connect with him here:  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ricardo-thomas-606b5161/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/Ricardo40972828
Published 05/12/21
We had 4 speakers in Technical Architecture and Leadership roles! Perfect opportunity for some technical talks from Black women in the industry. Details of speakers to follow! Speakers * Nana Fifield | VP of Engineering | Depop * Akua Apeagyei | Cloud solution Architect | Microsoft * Adiba Maduegbuna | Lead Android Engineer & Creative Technologist | Startups, ANIM Sessions * LaBrina Loving | Senior Software Engineer | Microsoft ---- Talks ---- Akua Apeagyei: Authenticating Users On...
Published 04/28/21
Meet Charlene Grant, one of the fantastic women on the Black Codher Bootcamp 2020. Between August and January, Charlene trained to be a Full Stack Developer on the Black Codher Bootcamp run by Coding Black Females and Niyo Enterprise.  We're so excited to have her on the podcast! You can find Charlene here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/affirmedvisionary/ https://twitter.com/AffirmedVision https://www.instagram.com/affirmedvisionary/
Published 04/14/21
Charlene Hunter, CEO and Founder of Coding Black Females interviews Julie Andrews and Jenna Griffin from BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT.    Coding Black Females and BCS have recently partnered to private a BCS Membership Bursary to 50 members of Coding Black Females. This bursary will be for women at all levels of their career, and paired with a programme of mentoring and events, with opportunities to contribute to news articles and policy.   To apply for the bursary, please head to...
Published 12/16/20
The majority of us use technology everyday in our day to day lives, yet the impact of technology on our health and human rights is often overlooked. Whilst technology has propelled advances in both the global health and human rights sector, bringing new innovations and improving the lives of many, the two sectors remain largely separate. As fields such as digital health continue to rise and technology begins to play an increasing role in our everyday lives, it is essential that those working...
Published 12/02/20
We're joined by RaGene Nomolos-Dixon a Senior Solutions Engineer at Netflix. Join us for a discussion of Technical Crafts in Entertainment. He'll be sharing some insights about working at Netflix, exciting projects and how you could get into the field. Definitely worth joining to be part of the conversation.
Published 11/21/20
The event will be hosted by Chantelle Larmond, a Project Coordinator at Sony Playstation We have 5 speakers Eneni Abban: Robotics & AI Engineer - The Future of Gaming Joy Ajayi: Gameplay Programmer - Through my lens Liz Wright: Client Side Programmer at Mediatonic Alexis Russell: Producer at Guerilla Games on Horizon Zero Dawn Danielle Udogaranya - Bringing Culture to the Sims Eneni Abban - The Future of Gaming (insta: @thetechover | twitter: @the_techover) Eneni Abban is a robotics and...
Published 11/07/20
This episode we were joined by Janique-ka John, Co-Founder of Women In Tech Caribbean and Siobhan Baker from the Coding Black Females Leadership Team. We have a great conversation about the importance of tech communities for underrepresented groups, visibility through public speaking and bridging the gap between the Caribbean islands. Janique-ka John is a Frontend Engineer at MEDIAGENIX, she is originally from St Vincent and is now based in Brussels. She does a lot of public speaking and is...
Published 09/05/20
Isabel is a Software Engineer from Portugal, currently based in London, UK. She is passionate about contributing to Open Source and helping people feel less intimidated by it. She was a Google Summer of Code (GSoC) student and this year she is a GSoC mentor and admin with AnitaB.org Open Source. She is also one of the Community Leaders for AnitaB.org London chapter. LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/isabelcmdcosta Twitter: https://twitter.com/isabelcmdcosta Isabel shares some really useful...
Published 08/19/20
Looking for a new job or thinking about a career change? Then give cybersecurity a serious consideration. According to Cybersecurity Ventures, there will be up to 3.5 million job openings by 2021. And as remote working is becoming the norm, companies are looking to implement tighter security controls to protect these new operating models. In this online webinar, you will learn more malware, a software intentionally designed to cause damage to a computer, server, client, or computer network....
Published 08/11/20
We had a fantastic evening of Lightning Talks on 15th July. Details of all the speakers can be found here: https://codingblackfemales.com/talks Technology Deep Dive * Amina Adewusi | A journey through Scala * Danni Youziel | Auth0 and The Invalid Token Learning in a Pandemic * Olivia Campbell | Head in the clouds whilst getting certified * Shaquilla Johnson | Detoxing from Dopamine * Temi Olukoko | Completing 100 days of code in quarantine * Yasmin Ali | Learning during a pandemic A tech...
Published 07/21/20
We had a fantastic evening of Lightning Talks on 8th July.  Details of all the speakers can be found here: https://codingblackfemales.com/talks Health and Wellbeing * Diane Laidlaw | Self Care Wednesdays * Faith Ruto MBA | Personal Resilience during a pandemic and beyond A Tech Journey * Audrey Limery | Break Boundaries in the Tech Industry * Talja Parkinson | Leadership In Tech * Nkechi Adeboye | Tech, Changes, Creativity and Curiosity * Isabel Costa | My journey to contributing to Open...
Published 07/11/20
Maya is an amazing Coding Black Female! She has been a women-only Personal Trainer for the past 5 years, specialising in Pre and Post Natal women. On top of this she runs the Tried It Podcast (@trieditpodcast), and runs Boss Your Body Events all whilst learning to code. She's been featured in the Metro in the article Strong Women: Body Standards are dictated by white people, and is set on creating a safe space for women of colour to train and feel good about their bodies.  Definitely get in...
Published 07/08/20
Hear the stories of women who have successfully changed career to a tech role. We'll start with Ekua Cant, a career coach, telling us the steps to take, then from Kathryn Tingle, Elle Hallal and Nyasha Duri who have successfully changed careers will be on a panel for Q&A. Ekua Cant Ekua lives to make people be their own cheerleader! Ekua started her career as a personal assistant to a Director working in the UK Civil Service, working with numerous Government Departments the Cabinet...
Published 06/14/20