Dez White

Education

Dez White is a native to Southern California, and attended Howard University in Washington District of Columbia, where she majored in political science.

Career

A former journalist, she also founded MouthtoEars.com, a gossip and fashion website. She is a mother of two, and developed an interest in technology through an acquaintance who was an application developer. White is a self-taught app developer, and is one of the youngest African-American tech entrepreneurs to successfully launch a suite of applications.

White was a former entertainment journalist for the celebrity gossip website MouthtoEars.com, which she founded.

She developed an application to send anonymous messages that disappear after they are read, similar to Snapchat. This application was released formally as Invisible Text in August 2013 to the iTunes app store.

lieutenant was re-launched in May 2014, and is still available in the App Store. The first networking event occurred in September 2014.

Achievements

• White is the founder of GirlCode Los Angeles, a nonprofit organization that focuses on introducing women to the technology industry through various events such as summer camps and yearly seminars.