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# Kelsey Hightower and Diversity at Teleport

**[Teleport](https://daily.dev/sources/teleport)** · 8 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

Teleport's HR Director describes the #KelseyProject, an internal initiative inspired by Kelsey Hightower aimed at growing (rather than just competing for) diverse engineering talent. The piece covers Teleport's diversity commitments, the CEO-HR director learning-to-code experiment, and application of Malcolm Knowles' adult learning principles to build pathways for underrepresented groups into engineering roles.

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