Black Girls CODE Founder Selected to Receive a Digital Vanguard Award during the Women Interactive

Oct. 12, 2012 - PRLog -- As Women Interactive (WI) debuts their Creative Technology Festival in Atlanta, Kimberly Bryant, founder and creator of Black Girls CODE, will be among a select group of women to receive a Digital Vanguard Award. The Digital Vanguard is awarded to women of color who do exceptional work with the use of technology as a creative tool and platform to share their work and make an impact on the world around them.

As a part of the great honor, Bryant will participate in Digital Vanguard: An Interactive Conservation with Women Creatives, an in dept conversation with other award recipients on content creation, technology and their roles in the digital space, on Friday, October 12th at the Microsoft Store in Lenox Mall from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.

Other techno savvy women who will also participate in the conversation and receive a 2012 Women Interactive Digital Vanguard Award include: Dr. Ayoka Chenzira, interactive filmmaker, educator, founding director of Spelman College Digital Moving Image Salon; Angela Benton, founder of New Me Accelerator/Black Web 2.0; Issa Rae, creator of The Misadventures of an Awkward Black Girl; Corvida Raven, founder of SheGeeks.net, co-founder of Everything Twitter, The Social Geeks Roundtable Podcast, and In A Third Place.

"It is a great honor to receive the Digital Vanguard Award from Women's Interactive for my work to bridge the digital divide with Black Girls CODE,” said Kimberly Bryant, Founder of Black Girls CODE. “Our mission at Black Girls CODE is so closely aligned with the Women's Interactive teams vision of broadening participation in the digital technology space by supporting women and girls in developing the skills needed to become tech visionaries and leaders in the 21st Century. We are thrilled to support their conference and humbled to be recognized for the unique work we are doing with girls to "change the equation" in STEM fields."

Following the Digital Vanguard awards event on Friday night, Bryant will host her second Atlanta Black Girls CODE Workshop on Saturday, October 13th from 10am – 3pm at Spelman College. During the workshop, girls ages 7-18 will learn how to build their own unique webpage. With the use of fun games and activities the girls will be introduced to HTML, CSS and basic web structure.

Based in San Francisco, CA, Bryant founded Black Girls CODE to create an initiative that aims to introduce and nurture an interest in the Science, Technology, Engineering and Math professions to young black girls between the ages 7 – 17.

To schedule an interview with Kimberly Bryant and/or to cover the Black Girls CODE Saturday workshop, please contact Lenora B. Woods at 404-840-0516 or lenora@theellenoraagency.com. For more information about Digital Vanguard: An Interactive Conservation with Women Creatives, please visit http://womeninteractive.net/. For more information about Black Girls CODE please visit www.blackgirlscode.com.