Reshma Saujani

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Reshma Saujani is an American lawyer, activist, and entrepreneur known for founding Girls Who Code, a nonprofit organization focused on closing the gender disparity in computing, and Moms First, a nonprofit organization that advocates for policy changes to support mothers. Saujani was born in Chicago, Illinois, to Indian immigrant parents who had left Uganda due to political unrest. She studied at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign before earning a master's degree from the Harvard Kennedy School and later a Juris Doctor degree from Yale Law School. Early in her career, she worked in law, public service, and finance. She worked in city government as a deputy public advocate at the New York City Public Advocate's office. In 2009, Saujani ran against Carolyn Maloney for the U.S. House of Representatives seat from New York's 14th congressional district, becoming the first Indian American woman to run for Congress. In 2013, she ran as a Democratic candidate for Public Advocate,...

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