tech industry

On Dec. 4, Bridgette Wallace walked through the Victorian home at 43 Hutchings St. She made note of the various interior features that will remain unchanged when the property is transformed into a “state-of-the-art tech center” for 14 young Black, brown, and Indigenous women and non-binary people of color.

The class operates out of half a Mattapan duplex, in a long narrow space that could have been a dining room in a past life. Now the table stretching the length is lined with chunky laptops, where local students consume computer science and information technology skills.