While attending a Black Employee Network (BEN) event at Comcast in 2017, software engineering manager Mumin Ransom realized that spending time surrounded by employees of a similar background was valuable — but that he could do more in supporting other Black technologists, specifically.

“I’m a firm believer that talent is equally distributed; opportunity is not,” he said. “We often say, the vision of the BEN was to give a voice for the underrepresented.”

And so, with former Comcast colleague Justin LaRose, Ransom cofounded BENgineers, an employee resource group (ERG) for Black technologists at Comcast. Black engineers are underrepresented among technologists overall, and LaRose shared Ransom’s vision for creating a community to focus on Black technologists, while offering them resources like public speaking training and an active Slack group.

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