Underrepresented minorities make up only 18% of computer science degree graduates in the United States, a figure that’s only budged up 3% in the last 15 years. These are the kinds of statistics that motivated Jehron Petty to found ColorStack, a non-profit working to improve Black and Latinx participation in software engineering by building mentorship and community at the university level. Here's Petty in his own words about how he got started with his effort to bring more diversity to software engineering and why he believes ColorStack’s approach is the right one to make an impact.