LA-Tech.org

In the past decade, Los Angeles (LA) has emerged as a vibrant tech hub, yet its workforce lacks diversity, particularly among women, people of color, and opportunity youth including those from foster care, housing insecurity, and undocumented backgrounds. LA-Tech.org seeks to partner with LA2050 to significantly scale efforts, aiming to connect 300 young people from these groups to tech careers by 2025. Our innovative program will expand support networks and access to tech opportunities, fostering equitable representation through paid work.

LA-Tech.org empowers low-income and underrepresented students in Greater Los Angeles (LA) through AI strategies, mentorship, and digital tools to increase internship applications and availability. We aim to provide AI training for staff and intensives for students, and a 160-hour AI Academy with industry mentorship. Our goal is to prepare 250 alumni with AI skills and support 25-50 young adults through paid work, driving success in tech careers.

In an effort to expand our LA Tech Career Academy efforts, LA-Tech.org is prepared to double the scale of our Academies work and place 300 post-secondary students in the LA region from low-income and marginalized communities into tech careers. We provide students from marginalized communities with access to these careers by giving them real world work experience and placing them in internships and jobs, which are critical to career advancement in tech and credit-bearing degree persistence and completion.