Marissa Ellis, the Diversily founder joined Julia Streets and Jane Welsh to record an episode of the DiverCity podcast. It is all about diversity and inclusion in financial services. The podcast seeks to shine a light on positive progress, call out areas requiring further focus, and offer lots of ideas to help drive change. DiverCity® […]
It was about this time last year that I had a thought. Where are all the women? After many years simply accepting that this was just how the tech industry was, I decided it was time for change. First I needed to understand why and then I was going to do my bit (no matter
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Naming an organisation is never easy. Naming a team on The Apprentice can be tricky enough! 29 years after the creation of the World Wide Web there are some extra challenges that didn’t use to exist. Back in January 2018 a seed was planted to start a mission driven organisation to drive more diversity and
A personal story from Marissa Ellis on her inspiration to found Diversily and join the collaborative movement to increase diversity and inclusion in the tech sector. Like millions of people working in tech today, diversity and inclusion was not on my radar. I have had a very successful career as a minority female in the male dominated
