Chicago Innovators: TechRise Wants To Close The Wealth Gap

Chicago Innovators: TechRise Wants To Close The Wealth Gap
Screenshot of TechRise by P33 website, helping Black and Latinx innovators and businesses to thrive TechRise / TechRise
Chicago Innovators: TechRise Wants To Close The Wealth Gap
Screenshot of TechRise by P33 website, helping Black and Latinx innovators and businesses to thrive TechRise / TechRise

Chicago Innovators: TechRise Wants To Close The Wealth Gap

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Every week, Reset aims to spotlight creative innovators in our region who are building creative solutions to long-standing problems. In our latest installment, we talk to the executive director of TechRise, an initiative by P33 to put funds and resources in the hands of Black and Latinx entrepreneurs to get their tech startups off the ground. The goal is to create hundreds of tech jobs and narrow the wealth gap for people of color.

GUEST: Desiree Vargas Wrigley, executive director at TechRise by P33