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Then the fourth part is advocating around voting rights. We just filed a lawsuit against the state of Georgia to have them immediately restore 198,000 voters who were erroneously blocked from the voting rolls. We also educate people around voter suppression and the need for expanding voting rights. That’s a core part of our work.

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It was also really important to do a narrative shift. We were frustrated with how we were portrayed in the media. It seemed like we were an afterthought, and we only mattered when it came down to last three weeks before the election. We wanted to shift the narrative of who was a Black voter, their importance and impact.

We were also ground zero in 2018 for voter suppression. It was open; it was abhorrent. Those who were bad actors, they were effective at using voter suppression efforts to get in office, but they grossly underestimated that there would be a backlash and a response to it. Our community in Georgia came out in response to that.

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It’s a lot, and Brown knows it. But Georgia flipped blue in November for the first time in nearly three decades, thanks to the tireless work of grassroots organizers, so it’s only right to harness that energy into the runoffs. “It’s like what my grandmother said: If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it,” Brown told GEN. “We have an infrastructure in place that has been proven to work.” Ahead, Brown tells us about the challenges of the Senate runoffs, her hopes for a new South, and why organizing work must go beyond electoral politics.

LaTosha Brown: In 2016, Cliff Albright and I founded the Black Voters Matter Fund and Black Voters Matter Capacity Building Institute. What we saw was untapped potential to really be able to change the politics of the South. The majority of Black people in this country live in the South. When you write off the South, you write us off.

The second thing is we wanted to help build out the capacity of leadership in the region. Many of the organizations that are doing work are led by Black women. We wanted to make sure that we were also creating a leadership pipeline by helping lift up the profile and support for them.

We wanted to create a power-building organization that would help grassroots groups and Black communities. We focus on getting more resources on the ground to grassroots and frontline groups that are doing work. In this last election cycle, we were able to support more than 600 grassroots groups in 11 states throughout the country. We provided formal grants — anywhere from $5,000 to more than $300,000 — to various groups, depending on their size and their needs. We were also able to support them by mobilizing voters and helping educate folks about the importance and significance of this election. And we were able to connect communities with each other so they could share tools, strategies, and lessons learned.

Whether you are a junior, senior, project manager, or a top-level manager with 20 years of experience, software project time estimation never becomes easy. No one no matter how experienced or genius they are can claim to know for sure the exact time a software project would take.

It’s easy to dismiss the concept of over-optimism all together just because it’s common sense that no developer who ever struggled to meet a deadline will be optimistic when setting deadlines. Now if project management is not coming from an engineering background and they set deadlines without knowing what they are doing, that’s a whole different issue that is outside the scope of this article.

The work wasn’t overnight. It has been an ongoing process for more than a decade. The way I talk about community power is like electricity: Thomas Edison didn’t create electricity in the purest sense; what he created was a conduit to organize the energy and direct it. It was already there. That’s the same way I see organizing: We’re not creating power; the power is already there. This outcome in Georgia is a result of deep-seated organizing. It works. While I do certainly believe that Black folks, particularly Black women, were at the vanguard, we weren’t leading this by ourselves. There is a multigenerational, multicultural coalition that is rising up in the South and is really going to transform it.

The last thing is you had a very divisive candidate leading the ticket. It’s one thing to be president. It’s a whole ’nother thing to be a racist and align yourself as a white nationalist. Those of us who live in the South, we are still smelling the bitter stench of what white supremacy has meant, of the burning of the bodies of our people. We can still taste the blood of what racism and white supremacy did, of the murders of our people in this community.

This problem is especially prevalent in software engineering, but other engineering disciplines are also known to suffer from the same downfall. So while this article focuses on software engineering, it also applies to other disciplines, to an extent.

There also was a perfect storm. We saw an environment where people were extremely frustrated. In the midst of the largest health pandemic that we’ve had in this country in more than 100 years, we had a lack of leadership in this state. We’ve not seen the kind of policy or leadership that would be able to effectively deal with Covid-19. As a result, Georgia has been one of the states that has had an unusually high number of cases. Many of our communities were disproportionately impacted. Albany, Georgia, was one of the communities that at one point had one of the worst per capita rates in the world. It has also impacted our businesses; many folks lost their jobs.