In February 2017, shortly after Susan Fowler's blog post detailing her year at Uber, Kimberly Bryant — the founder of Black Girls Code, which she had started in 2011 as a part-time evening programme in her San Francisco apartment — was offered a $125,000 donation from Uber as part of the company's public response to the crisis.

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