Our Founding Story
Code In Color came to life in 2018, after our founder, Karen Rodriguez La Paz, was featured on Netflix’s “The Kindness Diaries”, a show that catapulted Code In Color’s creation. Growing up in the Bronx, a New York City borough, Karen learned at an early age that educational inequality propagates a cycle of poverty, and a lack of self value and desire for educational advancement. With more than 70% of Bronx residents lacking access to the internet and proper technological education, Karen set out to build an organization that would enrich the lives of minorities who struggle to reach their potential by breaking into the digital economic sphere.
At Code In Color, our vision is to create rich, affordable, and standardized education and experience to support economically advantageous futures while improving diversity within the tech space.
Our Skill
Our courses focus on professional development that helps students build a brand, a product, and a go-to market strategy for anything they build.About Us
MISSION
Our mission is to transform the tech sector by creating inclusive and racially equitable technical and professional development for Black and Brown young adults.
We need to bridge the gap between technical educational access and the innovation economy so that all black and brown people can contribute to technological exploration, in all levels of the workplace.
VISION
With a rapidly growing tech market, our goal is to bring technology to the margins of society that are most under-represented in the tech space, and build an equitable distribution of power in the digital sector.