Shireen Mitchell is an American entrepreneur, author, technology analyst and diversity strategist.
Shireen Mitchell began designing bulletin board systems and gopher (protocol) sites prior to the advent of websites.
She was the webmaster for PoliticallyBlack.com, a site that was sold to Netivation (NTVN)[3] a large media company as one of the web transactions in the late 1990s that later went public.
She then founded Digital Sisters/Sistas in 1999, first as a website and then an advocacy and training organization that focuses on technology, new media and diversity.
Digital Sisters was the first organization created specifically to help women and girls of color get into the STEM field and use technology in their daily lives.