On the TechTO stage ×1
First seen on the TechTO stage in 2020. Every talk is searchable — ask the archive about Tomi ↗
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eventually I decided to actually write an article on LinkedIn, being very open about my feelings, because I heard a lot of rhetoric about, oh, thank God we live in Canada, it definitely doesn't happen here — and I was like, okay, let's talk about this.
TechTO People, Jul 2020 · watch at 5:45 ↗
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Around the web ×1
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What is Tomi Gbeleyi known for?
Founding Makeup for Melanin Girls, a Toronto cosmetics brand for deeper skin tones that grew out of a 170,000-strong online community. She has since worked at Lighthouse Labs and at Google in Canada.
What did she talk about at TechTO?
The lived experience of Black professionals in Canadian workplaces, on the TechTO People panel in July 2020 with Anthonia Ogundele and host Marlon Thompson.
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