Startup Life Show With Ande Lyons

Courageous and compassionate conversations are the seeds that lead to cultural change, especially within the workplace.For over 10 years our guest, social impact startup founder Marie Roker-Jones, has been leading gender and racial diversity strategies to create cultural change. A seasoned founder, Marie is the co-Ceo of Essteem, a platform that organizes Equalithons (hackathons for equality), a first-of-its-kind, virtual DEI events that connect tech companies that uphold diversity and inclusion commitments to underrepresented tech talent who want to work for those companies.As the founder of Raising Great Men, Marie built a movement for parents, empowering them with resources to raise culturally aware and socially conscious children. She was the senior editor for The Good Men Project, a multimedia, cross-platform site that asks, “What does it mean to be a good man in the 21st century?”Marie also has workforce and career development experience creating workforce re-entry programs for underrepresented communit