“How do you measure the personal impact of an event?”

It’s a question I’d never asked myself, in years of event production. Yet being at the East Coast’s epicenter of Black excellence gave me multiple answers. BlackTech Week 2018 was, dare I say, life changing, and I’m reminded daily of the positive affect the 72-hour trek has made on my outlook.

When I initially made the case for Technical.ly to fund my travel for professional development in Miami, my expectations were clear. As the only junior-level employee of the four people who identify as Black in my 20-person company, I saw the trip as an opportunity, but also as a responsibility. It was a chance to prove myself professionally as much as it was to uncover a mystery I’d been mulling over. What is the secret sauce of high-quality, ethnically targeted programming?

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