Despite engineering firms increasingly adopting inclusive hiring practices, Black employees made up only 5.1 percent of the U.S. science and engineering workforce in 2019, according to the National Center for Science Engineering Statistics. @janeenu is focused on radically increasing those numbers. The CEO of the Alexandria, Virginia-based National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE), a group dedicated to improving recruitment and retention, Uzzell is the former chief operating officer of the Wikimedia Foundation in Washington D.C. and worked for 16 years at General Electric. She shares her business journey, explains why the tech industry still holds misconceptions about Black engineers, and discusses the steps her organization is taking to help. Link in bio. (Reporting by @tina_wangxt / 📸 courtesy of Janeen Uzzell)