If there's one thing I want to accomplish in life is to encourage more ethnicities and women to enter STEM, yeah, promote more diversity. Here's the thing, the way I see diversity being enforced now, it's not organic. It's "Come into X field because we need more ____!". And you know if you go to engineering school with that kind of mindset, that flimsy kind of motivation, you won't make it. Engineering is much too difficult and too stressful to allow people who are weak minded or indecisive to survive. You have to want to be an engineer for yourself else you'll fail out.
So when new breakthrough technologies are in their infancy states, groups of "diversity" will completely ignore this because of the lack of genuine interest until it takes off and then they are left wondering "Why aren't there more ____?". You see this going on right now at blockchain conferences, like in the past couple of [redacted] presentations where it's mostly white folks in the audience. This is proof of the clear failure of the current method of diversity right now and it'll be spun by the media to take shots against the white man when it undermines the whole point of how distributed ledger tech lessens the ratio between a single person to a large entity more than ever before, giving power back to the people.
This is one of the reasons why I want to create children's books or come up with my own cartoon to expose kids to tech and to be curious and to think to themselves "I want this and can get this for myself". The diversity pull comes from telling this story from my own experiences living in the Caribbean. I think the biggest issue I will have is fighting against culture because you're fighting a losing battle trying to showcase something positive but not having a culture to create an environment to continually support it. And it will only get worse with the incoming income disparity and collapse of industries due to tech.