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How to create an education system where equity is the rule

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Reshma Saujani, Founder and CEO of Girls Who Code

Reshma Saujani, the founder and CEO of Girls Who Code, was inspired to form the non-profit organization after noticing the dearth of girls in computer science classrooms.

“I’d see boys who wanted to be the next Steve Jobs or Mark Zuckerberg and I kept thinking ‘where are the girls?’ Saujani, a 2018 McGraw Prize winner, asked during an April 8 webinar in a conversation about educational equity with Michael Golden, Executive Director, Catalyst @ Penn GSE.