Girls Who Code CEO to talk workforce of the future

Reshma Saujani
Saujani

Reshma Saujani, founder and CEO of Girls Who Code, a national nonprofit organization working to close the gender gap in technology and prepare young women for jobs of the future, will speak on campus Wednesday, Oct. 7, at 7:30 p.m. in Alice Statler Auditorium. The event is free and open to the public.

Saujani will deliver the 2015 Iscol Family Program for Leadership Development in Public Service Lecture on the workforce of the future.

In her new book, “Women Who Don’t Wait in Line,” Saujani advocates for a new model of female leadership focused on embracing risk and failure, promoting mentorship and sponsorship, and charting one’s own course personally and professionally.

After working as an attorney and supporting the Democratic party as an activist and fundraiser, Saujani left her private-sector career to became deputy public advocate of New York City, most recently running a campaign creating educational and economic opportunities for women and girls, immigrants and those who have been sidelined in the political process.

Saujani is a graduate of the University of Illinois, Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and Yale Law School.

The lecture is hosted by the Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research in the College of Human Ecology.

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