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Your mission has seemingly changed to center a focus on women and minorities over the last few years but there have been many of us doing this work for almost a decade if not more.

As Ayah mentioned in her piece yes you do have the benefit of scale but honestly? That’s to be expected because you all are also the most heavily funded org working in the space. so there’s that...

A few comments. I didn't say I didn't talk about specific orgs. I said I don't remember. My interview was over 9 months ago

But I agree with you, it costs me absolutely nothing to highlight specific orgs, and only lifts everybody up. It is stronger to do that than to just highlight the "community." I tried doing that in the blog post at top of this tweet thread, and will aim to do even more.

Our mission hasn't changed since our first year 2013. We launched in 2013, and even the very first #HourOfCode we focused on and celebrated diversity of participation. Even my planning docs before my first hire referenced broadening participation by underrep groups.

Here is the @codeorg about page in 2013, our 1st year, before the first #HourofCode, same mission as today "increasing participation by women and underrepresented students of color." https://web.archive.org/web/20131021042214/http://code.org/about …

Glad to see this was actually a “documented” goal however it certainly wasn’t a primary focus or highlight of your work initially because you all didn’t know how. Thus the outreach to orgs like mine and other educators of color. This happened.