EP41: Taking the Upper Hand - Technology and the Future of Work With Sherrell Dorsey

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">With so many initiatives telling minority communities they're not represented, not included, and not able to make a particular income, what if we could flip the narrative and say, “What if someone could give you the upper hand?" </span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Tune in as Sherrell Dorsey, founder and CEO of The Plug, gets the conversation started for families and communities traditionally not included in the dialogue around tech and the future of work. As the CEO of a distinctive black tech news and insight platform covering black pioneers in tech, venture capital, and work policy, Sherrell is changing the idea of who gets to be an innovator and genius and where these conversations exist. </span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Don’t miss Sherrell’s tips for anyone interested in launching a company in tech and why it’s time for the black and brown community to take the upper hand.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>KEY POINTS:</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">- Who is Sherrell Dorsey?</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">- What inspired “Upper Hand: The Future of Work for the Rest of Us”?</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">- Technology is truly about making creating efficiencies </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">- How the pandemic positively and negatively affected the world of work </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">- Why we need the “Upper Hand”</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">- Bridging the gap of the innovation language barrier</span></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>QUOTABLES:</strong></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">“Journalism has been intellectually lazy about shaping and building out that narrative of what is a black technologist. What’s a brown technologist? What’s a female technologist looks like, that's not in a tokenization kind of way.”</span></em></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">“When I