President Trump signed a memo to boost government spending on STEM education this week. Girls Who Code wasn’t there.
Saying “resistance is not futile,” Girls Who Code founder and CEO Reshma Saujani explains in a New York Times op-ed why she declined an invitation by the president’s daughter, Ivanka Trump, to hop on board the initiative, which is being backed by tech giants such as Google and Facebook.
“To work with this administration in any capacity is to normalize it, and all of the hate and bigotry it represents,” Saujani wrote. “That is the very real danger we face as the months drag into years, and each successive outrage fades from memory.”
Saujani, an attorney and activist who once ran for Congress, started the nonprofit Girls Who Code in 2012. Now a nationwide push to close the tech gender gap, Girls Who Code is backed by some of the companies that joined the Trump administration announcement this week. Read the full story on SiliconBeat.
