our team
Welcome to G{Code}, where we empower black, brown, and/or indigenous young women and non-binary people of color to thrive in the tech industry. Our programs provide a supportive, inclusive, and safe environment for individuals to explore coding, web development, and data analytics.
Our Mission
founder / Executive Director
bridgette wallace
Bridgette is an out-of-the-box thinker who pushes hard for equity and inclusion for those that are undervalued and overlooked. Her goal is to create additional pipelines that enhance Boston’s innovation mix by focusing on women, housing, technology, and entrepreneurship. As an urban planner and founder of Dudley Visions SkyLab and G{Code}, she has worked with institutions, coalitions, community residents, and city officials to develop economic networks and programs.
Bridgette is particularly interested in rebuilding the ways Roxbury and other neighborhood economies emerge by delivering specialized, efficient, and innovative plans that fuel long-term economic growth for Black, Brown and immigrant residents. She received her Master’s in Urban Planning with a concentration in Economic Development from Tufts University.
Operations / Development Manager
Magdalena
Abrego-Baltay
Magdalena Abrego is a Latine arts and technology professional whose curiosity initially led her to G{Code} as a student. After earning a B.M. from Berklee College of Music and a M.M. from the New England Conservatory, she completed the 2020 Intro to G{Code} program where she learned HTML, CSS, and Javascript. As a casual coder and restless creative, Magdalena returns to G{Code} with a passion for bolstering equity and accessibility in tech.
Program Assistant
tanesha crivella
Tanesha currently serves as G{Code}’s Social Media Manager. She has previously worked as an administrative assistant for nonprofit organizations. She has always had an interest in tech and is a recent G{Code} alumna, having completed the program in summer of 2023. She earned her BA in Anthropology with a minor in International Studies in 2018 at Texas State University, and has also studied Computer Science at La Sapienza University of Rome in Italy.
Community Advocate
Aden Gideon
Aden Gideon is a full-stack software engineer: passionate about tech equity and injera. She graduated from Temple University with a B.A. in African American Studies and Journalism (Go, Owls!). With a background in Higher Education Administration, she caught a glimpse into the world of tech, graduating from G{Code}’s Intro to Web Dev Program in 2020. She recently completed a Software Engineering bootcamp at Hack Reactor then returned to G{Code} as a Community Advocate, with aspirations of helping create spaces and opportunities for others like G{Code} did for her. In her downtime, she enjoys baking treats and taking photographs of her favorite people.
