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Reshma Saujani, Dame Stephanie "Steve" Shirley, and Debbie Sterling discuss their paths to becoming female leaders in the tech field and how they hold the door open for more to follow.
Google Zeitgeist is a collection of talks by people who are changing the world. Hear entrepreneurs, CEOs, storytellers, scientists, and dreamers share their visions of how we can shape tomorrow.
Reshma Saujani is the Founder and CEO of Girls Who Code, a national non-profit organization working to close the gender gap in technology. Started in 2012, Girls Who Code has reached over 40,000 girls, by running 80 Summer Immersion Programs and 1,500 Clubs across the US, leading the movement to inspire, educate, and equip young women with the computing skills to pursue 21st century opportunities.
Reshma began her career as an attorney and activist, surging onto the political scene in 2010 as the first Indian American woman to run for U.S. Congress. During the race, Reshma visited local schools and saw the gender gap in computing classes firsthand, which led her to start Girls Who Code.
Reshma’s TED talk, “Teach girls, bravery not perfection,” has more than 3 million views and she is the author of two books, Girls Who Code: Learn to Code and Change the World, the first in a 13-book series about girls and coding, and Women Who Don’t Wait In Line, in which she advocates for a new model of female leadership focused on embracing risk and failure, promoting mentorship and sponsorship, and boldly charting your own course — personally and professionally.
Dame Stephanie "Steve" Shirley founded a pioneering all-woman software company in the UK in the '60s, which was ultimately valued at $3 billion and made millionaires of 70 of her team. Since retiring in 1993, she has become one of the UK's best-known philanthropists, focusing on autism research in memory of her late son.
Debbie Sterling is an engineer and founder of GoldieBlox, a toy company out to inspire the next generation of female engineers. She has made it her mission in life to tackle the gender gap in science, technology, engineering and math.
Her company, launched in 2012, raised over $285,000 in 30 days through Kickstarter, and has been featured in numerous publications such as The Atlantic and Forbes.
Debbie completed her degree in engineering at Stanford and currently lives with her husband in San Francisco.
Reshma Saujani, Dame Stephanie "Steve" Shirley, and Debbie Sterling discuss their paths to becoming female leaders in the tech field and how they hold the door open for more to follow.
Google Zeitgeist is a collection of talks by people who are changing the world. Hear entrepreneurs, CEOs, storytellers, scientists, and dreamers share their visions of how we can shape tomorrow.
Reshma Saujani is the Founder and CEO of Girls Who Code, a national non-profit organization working to close the gender gap in technology. Started in 2012, Girls Who Code has reached over 40,000 girls, by running 80 Summer Immersion Programs and 1,500 Clubs across the US, leading the movement to inspire, educate, and equip young women with the computing skills to pursue 21st century opportunities.
Reshma began her career as an attorney and activist, surging onto the political scene in 2010 as the first Indian American woman to run for U.S. Congress. During the race, Reshma visited local schools and saw the gender gap in computing classes firsthand, which led her to start Girls Who Code.
Reshma’s TED talk, “Teach girls, bravery not perfection,” has more than 3 million views and she is the author of two books, Girls Who Code: Learn to Code and Change the World, the first in a 13-book series about girls and coding, and Women Who Don’t Wait In Line, in which she advocates for a new model of female leadership focused on embracing risk and failure, promoting mentorship and sponsorship, and boldly charting your own course — personally and professionally.
Dame Stephanie "Steve" Shirley founded a pioneering all-woman software company in the UK in the '60s, which was ultimately valued at $3 billion and made millionaires of 70 of her team. Since retiring in 1993, she has become one of the UK's best-known philanthropists, focusing on autism research in memory of her late son.
Debbie Sterling is an engineer and founder of GoldieBlox, a toy company out to inspire the next generation of female engineers. She has made it her mission in life to tackle the gender gap in science, technology, engineering and math.
Her company, launched in 2012, raised over $285,000 in 30 days through Kickstarter, and has been featured in numerous publications such as The Atlantic and Forbes.
Debbie completed her degree in engineering at Stanford and currently lives with her husband in San Francisco.
