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About Angela Ahn
In 2018, Angela Ahn co-founded Code the Dream, a nonprofit that trains undocumented immigrants, refugees, and low-income adults in full-stack development, using a curriculum she designed to integrate trauma-informed pedagogy with agile engineering practices. Unlike most tech education initiatives, her model treats code not as an abstract skill but as a tool for civic reintegration: graduates build apps addressing local needs, like multilingual housing navigators or ICE detention tracker dashboards. She’s testified before the NC General Assembly on digital literacy gaps in rural school districts and led the redesign of Durham Public Schools’ computer science pathway to include ethics modules co-taught by community organizers. Her work rejects the myth of ‘neutral’ tech infrastructure, every GitHub repo she mentors includes documentation on data sovereignty, labor sourcing, and linguistic accessibility. You won’t find her at DevConf keynotes; she’s usually debugging a student’s Django app in a church basement in Carrboro, explaining why a REST API endpoint should validate both JSON schema *and* power dynamics.
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- “How did you adapt agile sprints for students with interrupted formal education?”
- “What’s one policy change you’d make to fund tech training for undocumented learners?”
- “Can you walk me through how your housing navigator app handles dialectal Spanish variants?”
- “Why do you require ethics co-teachers—not just guest speakers—in your CS curriculum?”