Gentle Ramirez

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Gentle Ramirez is formally trained in HTML, CSS, Javascript, python, and has experience in SQL, XCode, and more. A May 2022 New York University graduate, Gentle is most passionate about using their software engineering background to envision technology products that are transparent and empower Black communities. Gentle is an active member in many organizations set to empower historically excluded people in tech. Finally, Gentle has interned and/or participated in competitive programs at Twitter, JPMorgan, Google, Microsoft, Deloitte, Goldman Sachs, D.E. Shaw, The New York Times, ColorStack, AT&T, Tech @ Pimco, and Harvard University.  

Gentle’s work centers poetry to revolutionize concepts surrounding race, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, class, ability, citizenship, universal forces, and more. At New York University, I have completed my minor in Creative Writing with a concentration in Poetry! 1/2 of my minor I completed through the unique Undergraduate Intensive Seminars in Poetry- taught by acclaimed poets Terrance Hayes and Matthew Rohrer—open to select NYU undergraduates. It has been a dream come true to spend my course of study in the Master Class programming. A 2020 Finalist for the Langston Hughes Community Poetry Reading Committee's Prize and a recipient of The Oluwatoyin Salua Freedom Fighters Grant (2020), Gentle has featured and hosted at Barnard’s Annual Sister Spit and featured in Say It Loud: A Showcase of Arts and Black Activism at NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study.