Karen Hao is an artificial intelligence reporter for MIT Technology Review. Hao’s focus is on the ethics and social impact of AI, as well as its applications for social good. She identifies herself as a tech reporter, experimental storyteller, and engineer. She is beyond what she claims herself. Hao dedicates her work to improving information…

Reshma Saujani is an American lawyer and politician. She was born in Illinois and went to University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for majors in Political Science and Speech Communication. She attended John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University for a Masters Degree in Public Policy and Yale Law School for a Juris Doctor…

former USAID Chief Innovation Officer Ann Mei Chang first began her career as a Senior Engineering Director at Google where she led the product development team for Emerging Markets. After 20 years in Silicon Valley, Chang moved her direction to the social and public sector as she served as Chief Innovation Officer at Mercy Corps…

Anant Agarwal is the CEO of edX, an online learning platform offering free courses founded by Harvard and MIT. Agarwal began edX by teaching an online course on circuits and electronics from MIT, which drew 155,000 students from 162 countries. He has also served as the director of CSAIL, MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence…

You probably have been annoyed sometimes by the random distorted characters that websites force you to type so they recognize you as a real person. Maybe, you have also tried to learn a language for fun outside of class using the free language-learning app Duolingo. Then, you might want to know about Luis von Ahn,…

President of UMBC Freeman A. Hrabowski is dedicated to educating minorities in the field of science. His science program has become one of the most envied programs in the country. The college’s Meyerhof Scholars program was dedicated to black men. However, It’s prestige has enabled opportunities for applicants of any ethnicity. He was named Time magazine’s 2012…

As the founder of Khan Academy, American educator and mathematician Salman Khan started his life in Louisiana where he lived and attended public schools before graduating as the valedictorian of his high school. Khan attended the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he received a bachelor’s degree in math and a master’s degree in computer…

Tech Ladies started as a small group of people that met at a coffee shop in 2015. Now, it’s a worldwide community with 50,000 members. It was founded by Allison Esposito Medina who wanted to build a community that would help build a more diverse culture in tech and bridge the gender gap. Allison Esposito…

Founder and Executive Director of Black Girls Code Kimberly Bryant was first introduced to computer programming during her freshman year at Vanderbilt University, where she majored in Electrical Engineering. During her time at Vanderbilt, Bryant became aware of a noticeable lack of people that looked like her in her classrooms. Understanding that the absence was…