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Keila Banks: Be Indefinable and Inspired

Monday, August 3rd, 2015

Who do you see when you look in the mirror?

How do people label you when they see you’re walking down the street, sipping coffee at your favorite place or in your work environment?

What do you see when young, black girls walk by giggling and talking?

Do you see potential? Do you see the next Zukerberg or Obama?

Or do you see tomorrow’s single moms, welfare recipients and drug users?

What would you see if Keila Banks walked by?

Would you see a girl who started blogging at six and taught herself to code at nine?

Or a girl no different from any other?

At the OSCON developer’s conference 13-year-old Keila descrubed herself as “indefinable.”

In a self-confident tone, she inspired the 4,000-strong crowd by telling them she wasn’t going to be limited by how people label her. 

And she encouraged the audience to do the same.

Now let Keila inspire you.

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