Our Commitment to Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion (EDI)

As we continue to grow and iterate, we have recognized our position to ensure we are leaders of Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion in Tech. As educators, we naturally aim to teach folks through experiential learning, and have developed programs in house to support that mission.

Our pursuit of an equitable working environment seeks to address historic and current disparities so that each student, and employee can participate in enjoying a healthy, rewarding, and supportive work environment. We are committed to ED&I at every touchpoint and below are some examples for how we’ve begun to scratch the surface.

Our goal is to have the diversity of our team match the diversity of the United States. We are on the journey to ensure this equity within our organization, but we know we have a lot of hard work before we reach success.

• We place emphasis on investing in women and people of color from local communities, to provide the opportunity for a career path with us and with partner companies.
• We anonymize job applications to hide gender, age, ethnicity and education background. This helps us reduce hidden/unintended bias.
• Because we know there are many avenues to receive an education, we do not require college degrees or certifications as job qualifications.
• We’ve built an Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Curriculum for Treehouse employees and partners, to roll out Spring 2019!
• We actively find and close unfair pay gaps between men and women.
• We work to understand and remove behaviors that hold women and people of color back in career progression.
• We are building, and offering externally, new programs that promote and build into existing organizations structures to fight the current disparities that exist today.