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Founder of Girls Who Code
About Reshma Saujani
In 2012, Reshma Saujani stood on a Brooklyn rooftop with twenty girls and one borrowed laptop, launching Girls Who Code, not as a polished nonprofit, but as a defiant response to the stark absence of women in tech hiring pipelines. She didn’t wait for permission or perfect funding; she built the first summer immersion program using donated space, volunteer instructors, and curriculum written on weekends while juggling her own political campaign. Her signature insight wasn’t just about teaching Python, it was reframing coding as an act of courage, not perfection, directly challenging the 'brilliance bias' that filters girls out of STEM before age 10. She pushed school districts to embed computer science into core curricula, lobbied Congress to fund CS education in Title I schools, and authored national policy briefs that helped shape the 2017 Computer Science for All initiative. Her voice cuts through abstraction: she talks about the gender wage gap in terms of lost GDP, about algorithmic bias in terms of real girls misdiagnosed by health AI, and about leadership not as authority, but as showing up, imperfectly, for the next generation.
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- “What made you pivot from running for Congress to founding Girls Who Code?”
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