Dear community members, it is with heavy hearts that we announce the resignation of the leadership team and the closure of GDI Oakland. (thread)
In our hiatus announcement, we stated that to resume operations we needed to see top-level changes, including the replacement of problematic leaders, public apologies, sustainable policies & efforts towards DEI, and complete transparency going fwd.
Recent events have broken our team's trust in @girldevelopit leadership. For these reasons, we are putting the Oakland chapter on hiatus for the foreseeable future.
These events are as follows (thread):
Former GDI Program Director @shanisebarona spoke to @KimCrayton1 on the podcast #causeascene about discrimination and microaggressions that she experienced from members of the HQ team.