Between the big and small ideas for approaching the yawning inclusion gap in tech, one of the consistent needs is to ask the right questions.

Think about job descriptions. List a college degree or a certain number of years of experience, and you just might chase away someone who can do the job but doesn’t have the resume credentials. Often that includes women, people of color and others who don’t come from the existing talent pipelines.

“What qualifications do we really need?” said Elizabeth Lindsey, the Princeton-educated Executive Director of ByteBack, a 20-year-old tech and career skills nonprofit. She says some of her group’s most compelling work is preparing D.C. residents for an economy that could easily pass them by.

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