Susan Graves Puts on Her CPA Hat

Code Burst

Just a brief recap: the ongoing class action lawsuit filed against Mined Minds has been dismissed. I went over how things have gone forward in the last episode, and i also interviewed Billyjack Buzzard about his experience with the organization. Since posting, someone has made me aware of the fact that, in the tweet in which Jonathan Graham announced that the lawsuit has been dismissed, Stephen New, a lawyer who represented Ty, Tori, and others, has responded with a few choice tweets. If anyone is looking for a more nuanced legal explanation of what has gone down, I suggest you start there. (Here: https://twitter.com/graham_jp/status/1161700954783342594) For this episode, I got in touch with Susan Graves. She went through the Mine Minds program in West Virginia. When Amanda and Jonathan started out, they said they could teach anyone to code, even out of work coal miners. In the last episode, we heard how Billyjack, an out of work coal miner, went above and beyond as a student in the program. Even after spending five days a week learning from Mined Minds, maneuvering his work schedule around the program, and going to work for them as an instructor and developer, he was abruptly fired for highly questionable reasons. He was left unable to demonstrate his work to tech companies, and, despite his best efforts has not found a job in the tech industry. Susan Graves also seemed like she was set up to succeed in Mined Minds. She had a background in computer science, and had her own accounting practice which she could work flexibly while learning to code. Like Billyjack, things didn’t pan out for her. I’m going to let Susan tell the rest. Read a text transcript at eLearningInside.com Follow me on Twitter: @henry_Kronk Email: [e-mail]