Oakland High School senior Mia Irvin-Pollard gets ready to start her workday as an intern for Okta Inc. from the apartment she shares with her grandmother on Nov. 18 in Oakland. (Photo by Aric Crabb/Bay Area News Group, via CalMatters)

High school senior Mia Irvin-Pollard had hoped to finally win a title running track this year. She wanted to ramp up fundraising as the head of her school’s Black student union. But the pandemic quickly put a dent in those plans to build up her college resume for the first step in her journey to become a successful Black woman in tech.

For Irvin-Pollard, that has placed even more importance on a traditional aspiration for ambitious high school students: the prestigious internship.

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