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Alumni Spotlight
Nov 7, 2024
Alumni Spotlight: Chastity Benton
When working in a lab for a pharmaceutical company started to feel like it was the wrong professional course, Chastity Benton changed direction. She had some knowledge of coding and enrolled with G{Code} House, an organization whose mission — bridging the gap in opportunities for underrepresented communities in the tech industry — dovetails with Code […]
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Nov 7, 2024
Code the Dream welcomes three new staff members
Code the Dream is proud to announce three new staff members: Product/Project Manager Shaya Lyon, Senior Public Benefits Analyst Louise Pocock, and Program Assistant Caitlin Gross. By way of introduction, each of them participated in a short Q&A to illustrate who they are and some — but not all! — of the reasons why they are such welcome additions.
May 10, 2024
NC IDEA spotlights partnership with Code the Dream
North Carolina-based economic development nonprofit NC IDEA highlighted their partnership with Code the Dream in a case study authored by CTD Co-Executive Director Daisy Magnus-Aryitey.
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Staff Spotlight
May 10, 2024
Staff Spotlight: Ming King
At Code the Dream, more than 50% of our staff are CTD alums. Our latest hire, Ming King, completed CTD Learns classes and was hired as a junior developer in 2023. In this short Q&A, you can meet one of the newest additions to the CTD team!
<div class="ctd-news-title">Staff Spotlight: Ming King</div>
Jul 6, 2023
From the Newsletter: DECODED Summer 2023
IMPACT AND OUTREACH Vamos Farmworkers are some of our nation’s most crucial — but also least protected — workers, and can be vulnerable to poor pay and abusive conditions. Agencies working to empower and organize workers for better conditions face challenges of their own: Just locating labor camps where workers live can be difficult and […]
Jul 6, 2023
From the Newsletter: DECODED Summer 2023
ALUMNI CORNER CTD Alumni Profile: Jasper Lin, Software Engineer at Biozyme Inc. Jasper Lin is originally from Taiwan and moved to the US in 2011. Before joining Code the Dream’s first online Ruby on Rails class in 2019, he was a grade school teacher and mentor to immigrant students. Starting over in a new career […]
Jul 29, 2022
Outreach to Migrant Farmworkers?
Irene’s Story When Irene was a young teen, her family made the difficult journey from Mexico to the United States in search of work. For the next few years of her life, Irene lived with her family in single-room migrant farmworker housing. As a single mother with DACA, Irene came to Code the Dream looking […]
Chastity Benton

Alumni Spotlight: Chastity Benton

Nov 7, 2024
When working in a lab for a pharmaceutical company started to feel like it was the wrong professional course, Chastity Benton changed direction. She had some knowledge of coding and enrolled with G{Code} House, an organization whose mission — bridging the gap in opportunities for underrepresented communities in the tech industry — dovetails with Code […]

Alumni Spotlight: Chastity Benton

by Forrest Norman

Chastity Benton

When working in a lab for a pharmaceutical company started to feel like it was the wrong professional course, Chastity Benton changed direction. She had some knowledge of coding and enrolled with G{Code} House, an organization whose mission — bridging the gap in opportunities for underrepresented communities in the tech industry — dovetails with Code […]

Code the Dream welcomes three new staff members

Nov 7, 2024
Code the Dream is proud to announce three new staff members: Product/Project Manager Shaya Lyon, Senior Public Benefits Analyst Louise Pocock, and Program Assistant Caitlin Gross. By way of introduction, each of them participated in a short Q&A to illustrate who they are and some — but not all! — of the reasons why they are such welcome additions.

Code the Dream welcomes three new staff members

by Forrest Norman

Code the Dream is proud to announce three new staff members: Product/Project Manager Shaya Lyon, Senior Public Benefits Analyst Louise Pocock, and Program Assistant Caitlin Gross. By way of introduction, each of them participated in a short Q&A to illustrate who they are and some — but not all! — of the reasons why they are such welcome additions.

Code the Dream logo

NC IDEA spotlights partnership with Code the Dream

May 10, 2024
North Carolina-based economic development nonprofit NC IDEA highlighted their partnership with Code the Dream in a case study authored by CTD Co-Executive Director Daisy Magnus-Aryitey.

NC IDEA spotlights partnership with Code the Dream

by Forrest Norman

Code the Dream logo

North Carolina-based economic development nonprofit NC IDEA highlighted their partnership with Code the Dream in a case study authored by CTD Co-Executive Director Daisy Magnus-Aryitey.

Ming King

Staff Spotlight: Ming King

May 10, 2024
At Code the Dream, more than 50% of our staff are CTD alums. Our latest hire, Ming King, completed CTD Learns classes and was hired as a junior developer in 2023. In this short Q&A, you can meet one of the newest additions to the CTD team!

Staff Spotlight: Ming King

by Forrest Norman

Ming King

At Code the Dream, more than 50% of our staff are CTD alums. Our latest hire, Ming King, completed CTD Learns classes and was hired as a junior developer in 2023. In this short Q&A, you can meet one of the newest additions to the CTD team!

From the Newsletter: DECODED Summer 2023

Jul 6, 2023
IMPACT AND OUTREACH Vamos Farmworkers are some of our nation’s most crucial — but also least protected — workers, and can be vulnerable to poor pay and abusive conditions. Agencies working to empower and organize workers for better conditions face challenges of their own: Just locating labor camps where workers live can be difficult and […]

From the Newsletter: DECODED Summer 2023

by Forrest Norman

IMPACT AND OUTREACH Vamos Farmworkers are some of our nation’s most crucial — but also least protected — workers, and can be vulnerable to poor pay and abusive conditions. Agencies working to empower and organize workers for better conditions face challenges of their own: Just locating labor camps where workers live can be difficult and […]

From the Newsletter: DECODED Summer 2023

Jul 6, 2023
ALUMNI CORNER CTD Alumni Profile: Jasper Lin, Software Engineer at Biozyme Inc. Jasper Lin is originally from Taiwan and moved to the US in 2011. Before joining Code the Dream’s first online Ruby on Rails class in 2019, he was a grade school teacher and mentor to immigrant students. Starting over in a new career […]

From the Newsletter: DECODED Summer 2023

by Forrest Norman

ALUMNI CORNER CTD Alumni Profile: Jasper Lin, Software Engineer at Biozyme Inc. Jasper Lin is originally from Taiwan and moved to the US in 2011. Before joining Code the Dream’s first online Ruby on Rails class in 2019, he was a grade school teacher and mentor to immigrant students. Starting over in a new career […]

Outreach to Migrant Farmworkers?

Jul 29, 2022
Irene’s Story When Irene was a young teen, her family made the difficult journey from Mexico to the United States in search of work. For the next few years of her life, Irene lived with her family in single-room migrant farmworker housing. As a single mother with DACA, Irene came to Code the Dream looking […]

Outreach to Migrant Farmworkers?

by Alex Rodriguez

Irene’s Story When Irene was a young teen, her family made the difficult journey from Mexico to the United States in search of work. For the next few years of her life, Irene lived with her family in single-room migrant farmworker housing. As a single mother with DACA, Irene came to Code the Dream looking […]