Walker first joined the QC team as an intern during her studies at Spelman College. Prior to that, she would always find herself volunteering in any capacity that she could find to merge her passion for tech and music.

“Believe it or not, QC is my first job,” she said in an exclusive interview with AfroTech. “I started as an intern, but once I graduated, that’s when I became an official employee.”

Like a host of others, Walker knew that she wanted to work in the technology sector early on, but didn’t quite know what the path would look like for her.

After seeing firsthand the impact that our music and culture have on technology, especially when it comes to artists and their influence, she began to toy with the idea of being in a position to help those visionaries capitalize off of operating as trendsetters for what the world deems as hot.

“I see the impact that music and culture have on tech, along with the different opportunities that come their way without necessarily having someone in the position to evaluate those opportunities,” she explained. “It made me realize that we have all of this influence on what has been determined as cool and what’s not, but we don’t always have the opportunity to capitalize or really be represented in those spaces.”

It was this thinking that began to shape her interest in working in the VC space and motivated her to do some heavy research and deep diving to educate herself on how to be the change that the world needs to see.

Pee Thomas

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