Mentor Spaces CEO and founder Chris Motley pivoted his company mid-pandemic to create a mentorship space for young professionals of color by Immelty
The new Mentor Spaces platform launches as a native mobile application this fall with the goal of filling the network gap through group mentorship. A protégé or mentee can submit a question to a group organized around various areas of interest, skills or industries and be paired with a mentor to have it answered.
While Mentor Space still earns revenue through company subscriptions, the mentoring platform is free for the 10,000 students and young professionals currently on the platform. Mentor Spaces works with several large companies and historically Black colleges and universities , including a new partnership with Spelman College. Since Covid-19 and the killing of George Floyd, the demand for the platform has skyrocketed, Motley says.
“Universities are more aggressively focused on connecting students with pathways to employment,” Motley says. Because of the quarantine, the future of job fairs and in-person career counseling is limited and universities “can’t do what they’re traditionally used to doing,” Motley says. “They are way more active in promoting Mentor Spaces.” Bureau of Labor Statistics,
twice as many Black or African American workers were unemployed than whites in the second half of 2019—6.1% and 3.1%, respectively. The crisis has only exacerbated unemployment. In the wake of Covid-19, Latinx workers have fared the worst, reporting a 16.7% unemployment rate for the second half of 2020. Whites weren’t far behind but still reported the lowest unemployment of 12%. There is also the wage gap in which Black and Latinx workers continue to earn less than white men.
“When your back is against the wall and you’re trying to figure out how to navigate, you tend to be reminded of these stories,” says Motley, who credits his mom with inspiring him. “She would bring back all these stories that helped me realize the answer to this problem is my own experience.
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