In an education landscape awash in technology, what impact could something as analog as a coloring book make? Especially for youngsters diving headlong into computer programming with an organization like Black Girls Code.
The answer is — a lot more than you’d think, according to 22-year-old Nia Asemota. The New York University student is the creator behind “Black Girls Code the Future,” a 36-page coloring book highlighting the achievements of Black women in tech.
The idea came to Asemota, who is in her final semester as a biomolecular science major with a computer science minor, during the doldrums of pandemic lockdown isolation in 2020. Coming from a Puerto Rican and Nigerian background, the native New Yorker…
