Successful women in the industry
Kimberly Bryant
A graduate of Vanderbilt University in Electrical engineering, Bryant
founded Black Girls Code in 2011, a San Francisco nonprofit that
exposes girls of color ages 7
to 17 to STEM subjects. The goal of the organization is to teach 1 million Black girls to
code
by 2040.
Ellen Pao
After learning to code at age 10 from her mother, Ellen Pao earned a degree in electrical engineering from Princeton University, a Juris Doctor and an MBA from Harvard. She later founded Project Include with other women in the tech industry. The group's mission is to address and prevent sexism and gender discrimination in Silicon Valley, and to improve diversity and inclusion within tech companies.
Reshma Saujani
With degrees from the University of Illinois in political science and
speech communication, a Master of Public Policy from Harvard, and her Juris Doctor from Yale
Law
School, Reshma Saujani went on to found Girls Who Code, an
organization that aims to close the
gender gap in the tech workforce. To date, they’ve served more than 450,000 girls,
approximately
half of whom are from underserved communities made up of Black, Latina and low-income girls.