Overview 🔗︎
Techqueria is a 501c3 nonprofit that empowers Latinx professionals with the resources and support that they need to thrive and become leaders in the tech industry.
To that end, we work with both tech companies and employee resource groups (ERGs) to build Latinx-centered spaces that revolve around career advice, technical talks, mentorship, open jobs, networking events, speaking opportunities, and open-source in order to comprehensively affect change in the tech industry.
Coming from all walks of life, we believe that the diversity of our community is the most reliable asset we have. Our space aims to be inclusive so we invite Latinx from the regions of the Caribbean, Haiti, and Brazil as well as those who identify as Afro-Latinx, Asian-Latinx or LGBTQIA. The term Latinx is used instead of Latino or Latina because it is a gender-neutral and inclusive term.
Mission Statement 🔗︎
To provide Latinx professionals with the resources and support that they need to thrive and become leaders in the tech industry.
Vision Statement 🔗︎
To become the most powerful and robust professional network of Latinx professionals in the tech industry across the world.
Slogan 🔗︎
Techqueria is a national 501c3 nonprofit that serves the largest community of Latinx in Tech in the US.
Values 🔗︎
- Community First
- Radical Inclusion
- Over Communication
- Positive Vibes
- Data-Driven
Community Pillars 🔗︎
People - Who are our members? 🔗︎
Latinx professionals in the tech industry with a focus to mid to late career professionals in PDE (Product, Design and Engineering)
Purpose - Why does our community exist? 🔗︎
To create more Latinx leaders in the tech industry which in turn will lead to a more diverse balance of power in the largest wealth-generating field in the world
Place - Where do our members gather? 🔗︎
- in all our online communities
- in-person events across all our different chapters across the US
Participation - What do our members do? 🔗︎
- Network & collaborate with other Latinx in Tech
- Share resources/advice/job opportunities
- Engage with Techqueria by becoming a corporate or community partner
Other things members do…
- ask for advice/share advice
- build a new Techqueria chapter
- collaborate with other ERGs
- create lifelong partnerships and relationships
- find a mentor who is also Latinx
- get a new job
- grow their Latinx ERG (employee resource group)
- grow their Latinx in Tech network
- hear about and attend networking events
- hire Latinx in Tech
- learn more about certain topics (product management, social entrepreneurship, front end, etc)
- sponsor Techqueria
- stay in the loop about tech in LATAM
- support other Latinx in Tech
- transition to tech from another field
- vent about workplace challenges
- volunteer for Techqueria
Policy - What are our values, guidelines, and rules? 🔗︎
- Code of Conduct that we enforce for our online communities and in-person events
- No Tech for ICE that outlines why we don’t partner with companies that support ICE
Promotion - How is our community discovered? 🔗︎
- word of mouth
- in-person events
- online (we are #1 on Google for “Latinx in tech” or “Latinx tech”)
Performance - How is our success measured? 🔗︎
- offline engagement (e.g. number of Latinx professionals who attend our events)
- online engagement (e.g. member growth, social media followers)
- qualitative feedback (e.g. feedback from members via surveys)
