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Reshma Saujani in Forbes' world's most powerful women radar for 2024
Founder and CEO of the non- profit Girls Who Code, Saujani's work focuses on female empowerment
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The Indian American activist Reshma Saujani was included in Forbes' list of women who are rising to prominence but are not quite among the 100 most powerful people in the world. The Forbes Women To Watch In 2024 list also includes Mira Murati, Fei-Fei Li, Michele Bullock and Hafize Gaye Erkan.
Founder and CEO of the non- profit Girls Who Code, Saujani's work focuses on female empowerment. The organization works to empower women in the field of computer science, and end gender discrimination in the field. Forbes observed that over the last 11 years, the organization has educated more than 500,000 girls, women and non-binary participants.
Post Covid, Saujani has shifted her energy towards advocating for better family leave and childcare policies in the US. She founded the Marshall Plan for Moms, which has become Moms First. In an interview with Forbes Women editor Maggie McGrath, Saujani emphasized that “childcare is an economic issue, not a social issue.” Her movement has ignited a national conversation about how to support moms and is backed by A-list celebrities, activists, and business leaders.
In September 2015, Saujani was named in the Fortune Magazine's 40 under 40 list. She has authored books including: Women Who Don't Wait in Line: Break the Mold, Lead the Way, published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in 2013, and Girls Who Code: Learn to Code and Change the World, published by Viking in August 2017, and Brave, Not Perfect: Fear Less, Fail More, and Live Bolder in 2018.
Illinois-born Saujani hails from a Gujarati Indian family settled in Chicago. She earned a bachelor's degree in political science and speech communication from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1997, a master's degree in public policy from Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government in 1999, and a juris doctorate from Yale Law School in 2002.
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