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Reshma Saujani – American Lawyer and the founder of Girls Who Code

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Reshma Saujani

Reshma Saujani is an American attorney and lawmaker. She is the author of the tech association Girls Who Code. She was already the Deputy Public Advocate at the Office of the New York City Public Advocate. Saujani lost the 2010 Democratic essential (19%-81%) for the U.S. Place of Representatives in New York’s fourteenth legislative area against occupant Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney. She ran as a Democratic possibility for New York City Public Advocate in 2013, coming third in the essential.

 

Reshma started her profession as a lawyer and dissident. In 2010, she flooded onto the political scene as the principal Indian American lady to run for U.S. Congress. During the race, Reshma visited nearby schools and saw the sex hole in figuring classes firsthand, which drove her to begin Girls Who Code. Reshma has additionally filled in as Deputy Public Advocate for New York City and ran an energetic mission for Public Advocate in 2013.

 

Saujani was brought into the world in Illinois. She is of Gujarati Indian plunge. Saujani’s folks lived in Uganda. Saujani went to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she graduated in 1997 with studies in Political Science and Speech Communication. She went to the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, where she got a Master of Public Policy in 1999, and Yale Law School, where she got her Juris Doctor in 2002.

 

Other than Girls Who Code, Saujani is likewise associated with numerous humankind associations including the Board of Overseers for the International Rescue Committee, which gives help to outcasts and those affected by philanthropic emergencies. Moreover, she fills in as an ex-officio Trustee of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). In 2019, Girls Who Code was granted Most Innovative Non-Profit by Fast Company.