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Episode Synopsis
BEE 33 Ida Bryd-Hill Ida Byrd-Hill, president of Uplift Inc, a nonprofit Tech Diversity & Inclusion firm focused in reducing the digital talent shortage. As a lifelong entrepreneur, Ida owned a wealth management firm for years, but frustrated with the fact that none of the money she was helping to make was being put into helping her community, she decided to start a nonprofit to help African Americans prepare themselves for the fourth industrial revolution. Web: http://www.upliftinc.org/ Her Book: Invisible Talent Market http://www.upliftinc.org/invisible_talent.aspx Books: Think and Grow Rich https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30186948-think-and-grow-rich Think and Grow Rich: A Black Choice https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/822185.Think_and_Grow_Rich
ZARZA We are Zarza, the prestigious firm behind major projects in information technology.