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Valerie Jarrett

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“Absolutely, which is interesting. And we can too. And so we have 100 deans from engineering schools around the country who are committed to try to improve the number of people that are going into these fields. And so we have an enormous amount of energy behind this, but this isn't going to change overnight.”
2015-10-07 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: White House Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Affordable childcare, raising the minimum wage. This whole basket of issues that are important to working families, companies that figure that out and invest accordingly have a more productive workplace. Yes, there are statistics, less turnover, and ultimately in the private sector more profitable. And so part of what we've been trying to do is to make the business case for why diversity is a strength. And businesses will be better if they want to be globally competitive, if they understand that.”
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“I think we have laws that prohibit discrimination. I think culture is something which really has to happen on the ground. And I think if you look at the evidence, so for example, last year we had a White House summit on working families, companies that understand that diversity is a strength, that recognizes that the workplace of this 21st century has needs and demands that are different due to changes in demographics. And so employers that recognize that, and whether it's equal pay for equal work or whether it's workplace flexibility, paid leave, paid sick leave.”
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“Again working with the HBCU, similarly to the way we're working with community colleges to improve the curriculum and make it more tailored to the needs of the marketplace. So I think I was heartened to see that there was an appetite in a lot of those companies then came to our Demode and did make commitments about what they want to do to improve diversity.”
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“It's abysmal. And you're leaving a lot of talent on the sidelines. And we had a great session, and they came up with a lot of interesting ideas, whether it was a rooney rule where you have to interview people of color or women in your final pool. Intel, for example, ties compensation to whether or not you have a diverse workforce that reports to you. And so they made this a priority. Recruiting from HBCUs, historically black colleges and universities around the country where you have a talent pool just waiting. One of the suggestions that was made is”
2015-10-07 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: White House Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Interesting because I actually was out in Silicon Valley earlier in the summer and met with pretty substantial group of tech companies. And I said, look, we have a challenge here. You obviously you're statisticians. You look at the data. Yeah, 70%.”
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“This is something we value investing in. One of the interesting things is venture capitalists still don't move. When we were covering the Ellen Powtrail, I'm sure you're aware of what was happening there, when the issues around gays in Deanna was happening, every tech executive stepped forward to have a quote on it. They love the gays. They're going to support the gays, bad Indiana, that kind of stuff. When it came to getting quotes about women or people of color in tech, silence. It was fascinating to watch because they're like, oh, and one of them actually said that's the third rail I'm not touching that Kara, which was, you know, sort of disturbing to hear.”
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“So, what can we do to match up both venture capital, institutional investors with these new innovators? So we have this demo day and we had all these incredible women and people of color come and show what they are actually doing. Get commitments from those who have the purse strings to say, yes, this is something we value investing in. One of the interesting”
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“There are a host of issues, say computer science, I think the average is women stay about three years. Yeah. And the surveys that I've looked at, the number one reason they leave is culture. They don't feel the culture is welcoming to them. You'll find the same comment with people of color. And so one of our solutions, and we had a great demo day at the White House in the last past summer, is to put the spotlight on this issue. And so, for example, if only 3% of venture capital backed firms are led by women. Isn't that much? I don't think it's.”
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“10% down to 5.1, but you still see it's far too high among communities of color, and yet we hear people in Silicon Valley are paying finders fees for the engineers. And so you have this mismatch. And so we have to create the opportunity. And it begins as early as early childhood education all the way through. And then the other challenges, of course, once you get people of color and women to enter into these fields, how do you keep them there? Right.”
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“I think it's opportunity. I always say that really talent is ubiquitous and opportunity is not. And so if you're a young black girl going to a public school in Chicago that doesn't have the kind of courses that are going to excite your interest, how will you ever know about that opportunity? And so what we have to do in the school, in the community, through internships and exposure is to open up everybody's eyes to the opportunity and make sure that they have the skill set for the jobs that are going unfilled right now. I mean, here you have our unemployment rate, which has come down substantially from”
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“So, I'll give you an example. So, for example, IBM has partnered with a school in New York, and they design the curriculum, and they work hand in glove with the teachers on the curriculum, and they help support the program in the school. And so the young people are being trained beginning as early as sixth grade, I think it is. To develop an aptitude in these fields. And then at the end of it, they hire them. And they know that the people who are trained with the qualifications that they need because they prepared the curriculum. And so companies such as IBM are doing this now all across the country, beginning as early as middle school and certainly in the community colleges. And these partnerships are going to forge a better”
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“It's a fraction, and so what we have to do, and you mentioned states, part of our approach is working at the state and local level, and so we're recruiting mayors across the country, for example, to work with their community colleges, their private employers, to get, again, these young people interested in these fields and make sure that the curriculum is designed in a way so when you finish a community college, for example, there's a job waiting for you. And using our community college system is a more effective routing system to get people into the field who would have historically not been interested.”
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“What is the problem? Because one of the statistics that I saw in one of your sheets, which was disturbing, was in CS courses, APCS courses, there's 500. Latino, I remember women, and Latinas studied doing these courses. That's a small number. And in 12 states, not at all.”
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“African American women who grew up poor was not exposed, didn't have engineers in her family, had no role models in this space, but was able to secure this internship at Xerox. Opening up those doors so that we are populating Ursula Burns all over the country is what we have got to do. What is the problem?”
2015-10-07 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: White House Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That's correct. Exactly. So you need the teachers that are equipped to go in those schools and teach. You need mentors. You need internship programs. I always like to tell the story of Ursula Burns, who CEO of Xerox today and started out as an intern. Didn't realize she had an aptitude in engineering, knew she was good in math and science. Getting people to appreciate an Afro-American woman.”
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“Get off track. And so, what we want to do is beginning at a very early age capture their curiosity and intelligence towards these fields and keep them momentum going. And so it's everything from figuring out how to get the resources that we need in our school system to make sure that the curriculum. I think it's 50% of schools don't.”
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“On the issue. You'll not come, and I know. So we have to begin building the pipeline starting with early childhood education. We have to get young people excited about STEM. And oftentimes engineering math, technology, engineering, and math. And oftentimes what happens is girls get older, they gravitate away from those fields. Immediately. People of color who may not have people in their family or may not have schools that are equipped with the right teachers to help them guide them into this space.”
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“Throughout the federal government, exactly, and brought in the expertise to help fix it. Now you only have to worry about the Republicans. That's on the issue. You'll not comment, I know. So let's talk about that idea of getting experts into the government. You know, one of the things you guys have put out is this tech hire idea. There's 120,000. There's jobs all over the place in tech. The pipeline, if it could be filled, it would be a great area to bring up people, the minimum wage, people that could more diverse workforce. It's a real problem in Silicon Valley because they talk about this pipeline that doesn't exist, except for essentially white men, like that there are a lot of white men, but that there's not enough across the country to fill these jobs.”
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“I think we had a huge software glitch. Fixed it. It's working really well now in a sense because it produces. So much media attention, they gave us an opportunity to get everybody to focus on it once it was solved. Our enrollments for the first two enrollment periods are terrific over 17.6 million people now have health insurance who didn't before. We're getting ready for our next enrollment period in November. And so I think it was a huge wake-up call to a flaw that we had. We fixed it and then we used that as a way of diagnosing problems that we're having throughout the federal government exactly and brought in the expertise to help fix.”
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“It's both. Or a knowledge problem. It's a knowledge problem. It's a recruiting the right people problem who have expertise in this area. It's the procurement rules. There are laws and regulations that we have to operate under that are not the same as you would in the private sector when you're not. Bound by all those restrictions. So I think there's a whole range of ways in which we fell behind for decades, and now we're playing catch-up. But I'm very proud of our record over the last six and a half years, and I think we will leave the federal government in a much better position for the successor who comes in. How do you assess Obama?”
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“Exactly. And so if you imagine here we are the largest entity, business entity in the country, and we have existing infrastructure in place, transforming is a lot harder through technology than starting up.”
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“Well, I think we're playing catch up, let's face it. This is an existing infrastructure that's in place. We have procurement rules that aren't necessarily friendly to technology and the entire way that we Approach our business has not been tech savvy. It's different. So, for example, the president's two campaigns were On the forefront of technology. That's because they were startups. All the campuses.”
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“And I think we've made a lot of progress. Why do you think that is? I mean, it's one thing to use these social media things, but the government is not as digital as the rest of the world. I mean, one of the things I was on Meet the Press and I said, you know, Tinder works better. And it's a very complex computing challenge to match up all these people, but it's a similar thing, that if you can get Amazon to work and Google to work every day flawlessly, what's the challenge for the federal government on the overall level?”
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“And then out of that process we really began to take a look federal government wide and what is our approach to technology? And we found that we're really basically we're in the dark ages. And so through a whole range of different initiatives, we've been able to recruit part-time or permanent folks from Silicon Valley to come out and help us throughout the federal government. And I think we've made a lot of progress. Why do you think...”
2015-10-07 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: White House Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, I think we're a work in progress. We've made a lot of, we've taken a lot of great strides, particularly ever since the challenges that we had with the website. Yeah, I like challenges. Well, it was a huge public embarrassment. And similarly to the movie, it's not what happens to you. It's what you do about it. And I think the fact that we were able to recruit in some extraordinarily world-renowned experts to come in and help us fix it in the short term.”
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“It's very diverse. Very diverse women, minorities all working together. So I thought it was very positive movie, particularly for young people who might not have family members who are interested in STEM or have any role models. What better role model in this great movie?”
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“I saw the movie this weekend, and what I loved about it was the fact that the woman had a woman who was the captain, a woman who was the one who actually discovered that he was alive on Mars. Yes”
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