Kevin Wang
Founder, Mentors in Tech
Kevin Wang is the founder of Mentors in Tech, a program that helps overlooked tech students at smaller, less well known, accessible and affordable colleges navigate and launch their careers through structured industry mentorships, integrated open source capstone projects, and tailored recruitment.
Mentors in Tech’s work has been recognized as one of the 20 Promising Practices to Advance Quality, Equity, and Success in Community College Baccalaureate Degree Programs by the Community College Baccalaureate Association. MinT has also been featured on the Clayton Christensen Institute blog as well as Microsoft Alumni News. MinT is the recipient of the 2023 GeekWire Geeks Give Back Award and MinT’s work with partner community colleges was published at 2024 ACM SIGCSE.
Prior to MinT, Kevin founded the Microsoft TEALS Program that has helped over 1,000 high schools in the US, Canada, and Mexico build diverse, equitable, inclusive, and sustainable CS programs. Kevin’s work in TEALS has been featured in the New York Times, CNN, Geekwire, and Univision. The founding and growth of TEALS is the subject of a Yale School of Management case study.
Kevin has a BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from UC Berkeley, and a graduate degree in education from Harvard.
Hidden Talent: Expanding Early Career Hiring Beyond Traditional Pathways overlooked talent at smaller, less well known, affordable, accessible local colleges
Discover how you can reach overlooked and underserved CS talent from smaller, less, well-known, but affordable and accessible colleges in your backyard. Learn about the unique strengths of these CS students, their lived experiences, and how they can help to meet your talent needs. Hear from student service organizations ColorStack and Mentors in Tech, faculty working with these students, and employers hiring them.
The panel will offer perspectives from student serving organizations: ColorStack and Mentors in Tech, employer: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, college: Cal State Monterey Bay’s Computing Talent Initiative.
