Tamar Huggins is a Canadian tech entrepreneur, author and educator.[1][2] She is an advocate for diversity, equity, and inclusion in tech education, whose work focuses on the development of the Black tech ecosystem in Canada.[3] Huggins founded DRIVEN Accelerator Group,[4] a tech accelerator for underrepresented founders in Canada. She also founded Tech Spark, a Canadian technology school for Black youth, girls and other youth of colour,[5][6] and created Spark Plug AI.[citation needed]
Huggins graduated in 2007 from Centennial College, where she studied creative advertising with a major in media planning.[7]
Career
Huggins pursued entrepreneurship in 2009 after losing her advertising job during the recession.[8] In 2012, she created the first tech accelerator for BIPOC leaders in Canada, called DRIVEN.[2] The accelerator raised $1.1 million for Black, Brown and women-led tech startups in Canada. In 2015, Huggins launched a technology school in Canada focused on BIPOC students, called Tech Spark.[1][9] The school educated 1500 students in the first two years.[10] In 2017, Huggins released her first book, Bossed Up: 100 Truths to Becoming Your Own Boss, God's Way![3] In November 2019, Huggins founded EDUlytics, later rebranded as Spark Plug,[11] a digital tool that uses data, hip hop culture and artificial intelligence to personalize education and inform education policy.[12]
In 2021, Huggins' technology company was awarded $1 million from TD Canada Trust, to scale Spark Plug to 40,000 North American students.[13]
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