Why Your Next CEO Should Have a Childhood in Poverty | Dalinda Gonzalez-Alcantar | TEDxMcAllen

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Published on Nov 1, 2015
Learning the skills it takes to create your life instead of waiting for opportunity to be handed to you is what drove Dalinda to learn to code.

Dalinda is an educator specializing in impacting communities through technology. While eJumcomm is working on empowering student leaders and families within the education system, her latest startup Border Kids Code acts as an enrichment program to empower student for the high tech world of tomorrow teaching them to code with after-school and summer programs.

This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx

[Judi Lynn]

1. Thoroughly interesting speaker. So glad she has found a way to make such a fantastic contribution.

Without a doubt she has helped improve so many young lives already, and filled a void, a place where specific, focused, innovative help was needed.