Techtonica's mission is to make every engineering team as diverse as its local community while empowering low-income women and non-binary adults through tech training and careers.

Techtonica breaks down the barriers that prevent those most in need of economic empowerment from receiving the training needed to join the rapidly-growing tech industry. Tech skills offer paths to higher salaries and stable incomes, but traditional postsecondary education that leads into the tech industry is currently very difficult for many people to acquire. With tech-heavy areas that have income disparities rivaling that of Rwanda, many people (especially gender minorities and people of color) are in danger of displacement. These blue-collar workers hold down two or more jobs and their families are often still in the hole once they pay rent. They can’t afford the investment required for tuition, supplies, living costs, and childcare during training. Limited scholarships don’t cover enough needs, maintaining a significant financial barrier. Techtonica addresses these barriers with a hands-on, project-based apprenticeship program for women and non-binary adults with low incomes.

https://techtonica.org

• Bay Area, United States of America

We offer underserved, diverse populations an opportunity to be involved in a long-term, tuition free, full-time program that prepares and places apprentices in the software engineering field without having to worry about financial instability.