What We Build with Power: The Fight for Economic Justice in Tech

A historically conscious manifesto calling for worker organizing in tech, led by Black and Latinx technologists

Tech is often thought to be at the helm of innovation, yet the economic disparities between white, Black, and Latinx workers continue to persist. In What We Build with Power, activist and organizer David Delmar Senties argues that tech is in a position to move beyond empty platitudes and towards an organized workforce that values the economic wellbeing of Black and Latinx communities.

Delmar Senties uses his first-hand experiences with Resilient Coders-his nonprofit coding boot-camp that trains low-income people of color-to highlight how we must identify and dismantle the intentional systemic barriers in tech that are precluding nonwhite people from participating in their cities’ prosperity. He shows how diversity and inclusion initiatives fail, how philanthropic efforts often exacerbate racial inequalities, and argues for a total overhaul of tech culture.

What We Build with Power is an urgent call for organizing and executing shared strategies in order to disrupt the tech industry and move towards a more economically inclusive and equitable workforce.