FREADA KAPOR KLEIN, PH.D.

@THEREALFREADA

Founder, Level Playing Field Institute

Co-chair, Kapor Center for Social Impact

Partner, Kapor Capital

VatorSplash April 2015

Male - 64.1%

Female - 35.9%

WHITE - 58.4% ASIAN - 28.5%

LATIN@ - 4.7% BLACK - 3%

COMPUTER SCIENCE EDUCATION

Who Took The AP Computer Science

Exam in 2014?

4% African Americans

20% Women

9% Latin@s

ZERO

African Americans took exam

in 12 states

Latin@s took exam in 7 states

Women took exam in 2 states

U.S. SCHOOL STUDENTS 2014-2015

ACADEMIC YEAR

63.4%

49.7%

45.3%

36.6%

50.3%

54.7%

1997 2014 2020(projected)

White People of Color

BIAS ANDBARRIERS

WOMEN ANDPEOPLE OF COLOR

Leaky Tech Pipeline

WHITE & GOLD or BLUE &

BLACK?

Leaky Pipeline Timeline

PYGMALION EFFECTRESUME BIAS

ROLE MODELS

Education Entering the Workforce Retention

SOCIAL BELONGING

CORPORATE LEAVERS

Son of a VC

Son of a Janitor

Legacy Admit to Stanford

1st in Family to go to College

B+ Average

B+ Average

Interned for Dad’s Friend @

big tech company

Worked part-time after school

Laszlo Bock

Senior Vice President of People Operations, Google

“BRAINTEASERS”

“G.P.A.’S

& TEST

SCORES

”

“NOT GOOD

PREDICTORS”

“ACADEMIC

ENVIRONMENTS ARE

ARTIFICIAL”

• Identical award-winning startup pitches presented; only

voices were changed.

• 68% of judges chose to fund ventures narrated by a

male voice, vs. 32% of those narrated by a female voice

• The results were the same whether the judges were

male or female.

“Role Models”

“Friendly

Physical

Environment

”

“Social

Belonging

Exercises”

“EMPATHY”

Level Playing Field Institute

• 100% graduation rate from high

school

• Three out of four took an AP STEM

course

• 98% went to college or university

and nearly half of those to a top 1%

school

• 83% declared a STEM major and

persisted beyond their third year.

@KaporCenter

@TheRealFreada

www.kaporcenter.org