Lead with Heart · 2024-12-10 · 36 min
On today’s episode, I’m talking to Ruthe Farmer - the visionary founder and CEO of the Last Mile Education Fund. Last Mile is a nonprofit that is committed to addressing social mobility and tech diversity by investing in overlooked and under-resourced talent. They take a disruptive approach to bridging critical gaps in financial support for low income and underrepresented students, ensuring they can complete their degrees and enter the tech workforce. Ruthe is sharing the innovative approaches employed by Last Mile, the importance of increasing diversity in technology, their abundance-based philosophy, and more. In this episode: [02:38] The Last Mile Education Fund - increasing diversity in the tech and engineering fields through financial support [09:53] Last Mile’s disruptive approach to getting students into the workforce [12:49] Last Mile’s funding model and its abundance based philosophy [20:25] Identifying and accessing partnerships [26:23] Last Mile’s policy advocacy and advice for grassroots organizations to start influencing policy RESOURCES
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