Trail of Bits donates $100,000 to support young researchers through Summer Con

Summary: Trail of Bits is partnering with the SummerCon Foundation to create the Trail of Bits SummerCon Fellowship, a $100,000 grant program for budding security researchers in which at least 50% of spots are reserved for minority and female-identifying candidates. The donation follows a SummerCon lineup in which all speakers were men, and the conference has committed to publishing CFP criteria, identifying its speaker-selection committee, and expanding that team to include 50% minorities and women, along with an enforced anti-harassment policy.
Why it matters: Trail of Bits notes its own team of 37 people includes only four women, two of them engineers - the pipeline problem the fellowship targets sits inside the organizations that will be hiring from it.

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