Founder of Moms First & Girls Who Code
Reshma Saujani: Biography at a Glance
- Reshma Saujani is the Founder of Moms First, a movement focused on working with lawmakers to address the challenges women in the workforce face.
- She is also the Founder and former CEO of Girls Who Code, the international nonprofit organization working to close the gender gap in technology and change the image of what a computer programmer looks like and does.
- Girls Who Code is leading the movement to inspire, educate, and equip young women with computing skills to pursue 21st-century opportunities. Girls Who Code was awarded Most Innovative Non-Profit by Fast Company.
- Reshma Saujani is the author of the international bestseller Brave, Not Perfect and the New York Times bestseller Girls Who Code: Learn to Code and Change the World.
- Her latest book, Pay Up: The Future of Women and Work, discusses the need for corporate reform, government intervention, and a large-scale culture shift to create change for working women.
- Saujani’s TED Talk, “Teach girls bravery, not perfection,” has more than 54 million views globally and has sparked a worldwide conversation about how we’re raising our girls.
- She is the host of the award-winning podcast Brave, Not Perfect and My So-Called Midlife, which features Saujani in conversation about embracing middle age with successful women from different professional fields.
Media
- Official Site: Girls Who Code
- MSNBC: Moms are driving our economic recovery. So why is Congress pushing them o...
- Marshall Plan for Moms Honored by Lizzo at the People's Choice Awards
- Glamour: Impostor Syndrome Isn't A Syndrome, It's A Scheme
- Elle: Jacinda Ardern Showed Moms How to Advocate for Themselves
- Fast Company: Workplaces are returning to the pre-pandemic status quo
- TIME: We Don’t Have to Choose Between Ethical AI and Innovative AI
- Reshma Saujani Wants to Have Candid Conversations About Middle Age on Her New Po...
- I Founded Girls Who Code. Now I’m Worried About Boys.
Videos
Biography
Reshma Saujani is a leading activist, the founder of Girls Who Code, the founder and CEO of Moms First, and the host of My So-Called Midlife with Lemonada Media. She has spent more than a decade building movements to fight for women and girls’ economic empowerment, working to close the gender gap in the tech sector, and fighting for the structural changes moms need and deserve including affordable child care and paid leave. She is a New York Times bestselling author of several books including Pay Up: The Future of Women and Work (And Why It’s Different Than You Think), Brave, Not Perfect, and the Girls Who Code book series.
As a leading voice on women’s empowerment, her Smith College Commencement speech on imposter syndrome has more than 18 million views, and her influential TED talk, “Teach girls bravery, not perfection,” has more than 54 million views globally. She also launched My So-Called Midlife, a podcast with Lemonada Media that quickly entered Apple’s Top 10 show chart, reached #1 in Health and Fitness, and was named one of the best new podcasts of the year by TIME magazine. Reshma began her career as an attorney and Democratic organizer. In 2010, she surged onto the political scene as the first Indian American woman to run for U.S. Congress. Reshma lives in New York City with her husband, Nihal, their sons, Shaan and Sai, and their dog Steve.
Topics
Aspirational AI: We Don’t Have to Choose Between Ethics and Innovation
As the founder of Girls Who Code, Reshma Saujani knows as well as anyone the risks technology poses to the most vulnerable among us. The sense of impending doom over AI stealing women’s jobs, proliferating racial bias, and furthering economic disparities, however, distracts us from the incredible opportunities to help those same vulnerable communities.
In this conversation, Reshma details how the next generation of AI will close inequality gaps and help solve a variety of complex societal issues from education to healthcare to climate change by streamlining processes, sharing trusted information, and more. She also shares her experience launching PaidLeave.ai, showing us how AI can help one of the communities she’s most passionate about supporting - moms. Audiences will walk away optimistic about our AI future and with a better understanding of how AI advancements will impact not only every business sector but also our personal lives.
The Myth of Imposter Syndrome
Imposter Syndrome describes the self-doubt that creeps in, making women in particular feel inadequate or unworthy to speak up in a boardroom or a classroom. From running for office and founding Girls Who Code to building an advocacy movement for moms, Reshma Saujani is all too familiar with the feeling that you’re not prepared or “good enough.”
In this talk, however, Reshma isn’t going to tell you how to overcome imposter syndrome. Instead, she’ll explain why it’s not a syndrome at all. Reshma dissects the myth of imposter syndrome, explaining that the idea is one rooted in misogyny in order to make women feel unworthy of their progress and success. Reshma expertly details the negative impact of the myth of imposter syndrome and explains the systemic changes needed to dispel this invisible construct, leaving audiences feeling empowered and encouraged to take big swings.
Brave, Not Perfect
Do you run yourself ragged trying to not just do it all, but do it all flawlessly? Do you lose sleep ruminating over small mistakes or worrying that something you said or did might have offended someone? Have you ever passed up a big opportunity - a relationship, job, or a personal challenge - for fear you wouldn't nail it right away or look foolish trying? For you, is failure simply not an option?
You're not alone. As women, we've been taught from an early age to play it safe. Well-meaning parents and teachers rewarded us for being quiet and polite, urged us to be careful so we didn't get hurt, and steered us to activities at which we could shine. Meanwhile, boys were encouraged to speak up, get dirty, take risks and get right back up again if they fell. In short, boys are taught to be brave, while girls are taught to be perfect.
In a moderated Q&A, drawing from her book, Brave, Not Perfect, Saujani shares powerful insights and practices to make bravery a lifelong habit. Key takeaways include:
- The distinction between bravery, perfection and excellence
- Understanding whether or not this phenomenon is gendered
- Tangible actions both male and female leaders can take to enable women’s success
- Strategies to start undoing some of that perfection training
- How you can be part of the Bravery Revolution
Closing the Gender Gap in Technology
It’s no secret that the tech industry has a serious gender imbalance. We live in an era in which girls are told they can do anything, so why aren’t there more women in leadership roles to look up to? In 2012, Reshma Saujani founded Girls Who Code with the mission of correcting this disparity. Since then, she has sparked a national conversation about increasing the number of women in tech, and Girls Who Code has reached nearly 40,000 young girls, 90 percent of whom have declared or intend to declare a major or minor in computer science. With Google and Twitter as backers, and Facebook and AT&T (among others) signed on as mentors, the program aims to enroll 1 million women by 2020.
Drawing from her book, Women Who Don’t Wait in Line, Saujani will advocate a new model of female leadership focused on embracing risk and failure, promoting mentorship and sponsorship, and boldly charting your own course, both personally and professionally.
How to Fail First, Fail Hard and Fail Fast
Reshma Saujani is a serial failed politician. Strikingly, it is because of her failures she has built a national movement that is changing the conversation about women and technology. Recounting her personal narrative and lessons learned in this compelling, dynamic and earnest presentation, Saujani also weaves in stories of other accomplished women who have overcome roadblocks and forged new paths—women who have similarly learned to live an authentic life by taking risks and choosing to seek failure rather than fear it. Offering tools to improve resiliency and embark on new ideas, she ignites and inspires audience members to pursue risk and help reshape the country.
The Future of Women and Work (and Why It's Different Than You Think)
We told women that to break glass ceilings and succeed in their careers, all they needed to do is dream big, raise their hands, and lean in. But data tells a different story.
In this urgent and rousing conversation, Reshma Saujani dismantles the myth of “having it all” and lifts the burden we place on individual women to be primary caregivers and to work around a system built for and by men. Through powerful data and personal narrative, Saujani shows the cost of inaction and lays out four key steps for creating lasting change: empower working women, educate corporate leaders, revise our narratives about what it means to be successful, and advocate for policy reform.
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