Reshma Saujani Biography

Reshma Saujani is the founder and CEO of Girls Who Code, a global non-profit organization dedicated to bridging the gender divide in technology and changing people's perceptions of what a programmer is and does. Girls Who Code is leading the effort to empower, train, and equip young people with the computing skills they need to explore 21st-century opportunities with their 7-week Summer Immersion Program, 2-week advanced Campus Program, after-school Clubs, and a 13-book New York Times best-selling collection. Girls Who Code will have crossed over 90,000 girls in all 50 states and some US territories by the end of the 2018 academic year. Girls Who Code alumni are 15 times more likely than the national average to major in computer science or related fields; Black and Latina's alumni are 16 times more likely to major in computer science or related fields. Reshma started her career as a lawyer and an activist. She made history as the first Indian American woman to run for Congress in the United States in 2010. Reshma toured local schools during the race and saw firsthand the gender divide in coding classes, which inspired her to found Girls Who Code. She has previously worked as New York City's Deputy Public Advocate and ran a strong bid for Public Advocate in 2013. Reshma's TED talk, "Teach children, courage not excellence," has received over four million views and sparked a nationwide debate over how we raise our daughters. She is the author of three books, including the upcoming Brave, Not Perfect (due out in Winter 2018), the New York Times bestseller Girls Who Code: Learn to Code and Change the World and Women Who Don't Wait In Line (due out in Spring 2018), in which she advocates for a new model of female leadership that emphasizes embracing risk and failure, promoting mentorship and sponsorship, and boldly charting your own course. Reshma is a Harvard Kennedy School of Government, University of Illinois, and Yale Law School alum. She's been named one of Fortune's World's Greatest Leaders, Fortune's 40 Under 40, a WSJ Magazine Innovator of the Year, a Harold W. McGraw, Jr. Prize in Education winner, one of the 50 Most Powerful Women in New York by the New York Daily News, CNBC's Next List, Forbes's Most Powerful Women Changing the World, Fast Company's 100 Most Creative People, and a Harold W. McGraw, Jr. Prize in Education. Saujani is a member of the International Rescue Committee's Board of Overseers, which offers assistance to refugees and those affected by humanitarian emergencies, as well as She, Can Run, an organization dedicated to increasing the number of women in positions of public leadership. Reshma, her husband Nihal, their son Shaan, and their bulldog Stanley live in New York City.

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