emily: thanks to brianna wu, congressional candidate in massachusetts.o heard from someone who had championed improving gender diversity in the workforce, the chief technology officer of the united states under president obama and vice president of google before that. megan smith joined us from washington. megan: there's people from all backgrounds across the country who would love to be part of the tech sector. when we were coming into town, cheyenne, denver, atlanta, we just get the word out and they were coming in. tech companies are showing up, people are showing up for the mentoring. a lot of people want in on these high-paying jobs that pay 50% more than the average american salary. there are hundreds of thousands of jobs open in america in every sector. all companies are software tech companies at this point. emily: and yet gender representation in computing, women make up 25% of computing jobs, the statistics for blacks and latinos are downright depressing, and women led companies are getting 2% of funding. why do you think that is? megan: extrao

brianna wu, who worked in the videogame industry and is now running for congress in the massachusettsrict is here to explain how she wants to enact change in tech. she knows from personal experience how this role be trolls can be. -- how visceral the trolls can be. she also played a critical role in a chapter of my new book, "brotopia." >> take us back to gamergate. some people may not remember just how bad it was. it was a few years ago, and suddenly you have what seemed to be the entire gaming industry attacking you. >> it was truly harsh. the summer leading up to gamergate, what happened is the forces that became the alt-right found the playbook to silence any woman in the gaming industry that they didn't like. they would go after her career, they would critique her, send her threats, basically tried to get her fired from her job, and this was happening left and right to my friends. and then i realized that the men in our field were not going to speak out for the women that were being run out. i had many back channel conversations, asking them to do the right thing, and they wouldn