Whereas there will be 1,400,000 new tech jobs by 2020, however, 70 percent of those jobs will be unfulfilled at the rate United States universities are currently producing qualified graduates; Whereas communities of color (African Americans, Latinos, Native Americans, Asian Americans, and Pacific Islanders) are woefully underrepresented in corporate leadership roles, including the technology sector; Whereas African Americans, Latinos, Native Americans, and Pacific Islanders are disproportionately underrepresented in the technology sector; Whereas Black and Hispanic workers in the science and engineering workforce continue to be underrepresented, Black employees represent 11 percent of the United States workforce but only 9 percent of the science and engineering workforce, and Hispanic employees represent 16 percent of the United States workforce but only 7 percent of the science and engineering workforce; Whereas the share of women working in science and engineering jobs has held steady around 50 percent since 1990, but the share of women in specific fields has varied from 47 percent in life sciences to only 25 percent in computer science; Whereas women of color represent less than 10 percent of all computer science professionals (African American: 5.7 percent; Hispanic: 6.4 percent; American Indian or Alaska Native: 0.1 percent; and Asian: 22.9 percent); Whereas 50 to 70 percent of employees in tech companies work in non-tech positions, for which an existing pipeline of qualified African Americans and Latinos currently exists; Whereas a pipeline of qualified technical candidates is critical as the tech industry improves its recruiting, hiring, and retaining of candidates and employees of color; Whereas underrepresented minority students overall face an opportunity gap in STEAM education; Whereas women of color particularly face an achievement gap in science and engineering education; Whereas, in 2015, women were conferred nearly a third of all science and engineering degrees