Episode 6: Adanta Ahanonu Making The Career Switch & Year Up

 Adanta Ahanonu is the Site Director for Year Up at Diablo
Valley College. Year Up is a national nonprofit that empowers
underserved young adults to go from minimum wage to meaningful
careers in a single year with the help of a free intensive career
readiness and higher education training program. Students spend
six-months in a classroom setting learning professional and
technical skills, followed by six months in an internship at top
companies like Facebook, Airbnb,  Google, and
Salesforce.  In this episode Adanta shares her experience of
making the career switch from the insurance industry to a woman in
tech as a Site Director for Year Up. Tune in to hear how she
helping introduce the youth to Silicon Valley. For more information
about Year Up visit their website https://www.yearup.org/