Wentors’ Tribe Mentorship Program for Women of Color in Technology is now Open

We can now work from anywhere in the globe thanks to the internet. We experienced the great resignation and the peak of the work-from-home culture in 2021.

Now that the world may be slowly recovering from the great resignation, organizations are changing their work cultures to one that is partially or entirely remote in an effort to be adequately prepared for whatever the coming decade may bring.

Due to the events of the previous year, a new work culture has been established, thus we need to make sure we are ready.

Additionally, organizations are working to close the recruiting gap by gradually giving skill-based hiring priority in order to increase the number of qualified candidates.

As a result, Wentors has committed to putting women in technology in the best possible positions to benefit from this worldwide transition. We feel that we are at a turning point in history.

EduAbasi Chukwunweike and Unoma Adeyemi, two former Microsoft coworkers who founded Wentors, are dedicated to boosting the rate of women’s participation and retention in technology through mentorship.

As the technological landscape constantly changes, we now have a greater chance than ever to actually live in a global community. We are at the cusp of a world of abundant opportunities for women of color in IT, thanks to firms stressing a multicultural work environment that transcends borders and the creation of talent pipelines across multiple regions in Africa and the middle east.

Through their mentorship program, Wentors is fostering the growth and empowerment of women, and they recently developed a new mentorship model for women of color in Africa and the Middle East.

In just 2 years, the rapidly expanding community of women has mentored 4000 women on 5 continents, and they are now adding a group mentoring experience to cross-border mentoring.

The organization’s purpose was succinctly summed up by Toluwase Olugbemiro, the communication lead of Wentors.

“We want to remove the cultural barrier that exists for women in our neighborhood. We think that this is an intentional strategy to let students see firsthand what it would be like to collaborate with people from different racial and cultural backgrounds. To help students get ready for a potential future of employment in the technology business, we are creating the Tribe mentorship program.

The Tribe mentorship cohort, according to Dorathy Simeon, who oversees programs at Wentors, is a first for our neighborhood. When providing mentorship for women in technology, it was created out of the necessity to ensure that we cover as many potential gray areas as we can. And one thing we believed required attention was being culturally equipped for work.

Five mentees will be matched with mentors from different parts of the world as part of a mentoring program specifically created for women in Africa and the Middle East. The goal of Wentors’ strategic strategy is to serve the world’s largest population of women of color.

The founders claim that it is also a chance for women in senior roles with more than four years of experience to support the community for women and foster the development of the next generation of women in technology.

We look to groups like Wentors to ensure that our women have access to professional mentorship that will further prepare them for the global market as Africa continues to develop.