Adanta Ahanonu is the Site Director for Year Up at Diablo Valley College. Year Up is a national nonprofit that empowers underserved young adults to go from minimum wage to meaningful careers in a single year with the help of a free intensive career readiness and higher education training program. Students spend six-months in a classroom setting learning professional and technical skills, followed by six months in an internship at top companies like Facebook, Airbnb,  Google, and Salesforce.  In this episode Adanta shares her experience of making the career switch from the insurance industry to a woman in tech as a Site Director for Year Up. Tune in to hear how she helping introduce the youth to Silicon Valley. For more information about Year Up visit their website https://www.yearup.org/ Become a supporter of this podcast: https://anchor.fm/not-your-average-culture/support https://www.pocketcasts.com/