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Speaker: Alex Qin
Software Engineer, Educator and Founder of Code Cooperative
Alex Qin is a Brooklyn based software engineer and educator. She cares deeply about access to computer science education, and about leveraging technology to create positive social change. She works at Skillshare, where she leads an engineering team, and co-organizes Codeshare, an inclusive and intimate gathering of programmers interested in the intersection of code, creativity, and art. She is also the founder of the Code Cooperative, an open source educational program through which former inmates learn to code as a means to creating social change.