Seattle-based Ada Developers Academy in December named Lauren Sato as the new CEO of the tuition-free, software development boot camp for women and underrepresented sexual, gender and racial minorities. The 7-year-old program started as a project of the Technology Alliance before becoming a standalone nonprofit organization in 2015. It runs two 48-person cohorts per year and has graduated 380 students. In recent years, 91 percent of the grads have found full-time jobs in technology within six months of leaving Ada. While women's numbers in tech roles still lag well behind men - roughly one-quarter of professional computing occupations in the... Read More
