As America changes, the tech industry has been slow to keep up. Over half of children born today are people of color, and 1 in 4 have an immigrant parent. Yet Silicon Valley and the U.S. tech economy do not look like our diverse population. That results in a lot of missed opportunities for all of us.
Code the Dream recognizes that people from immigrant backgrounds and communities of color have great ideas and will play a huge part in our 21st century economy. Already immigrants are more than twice as likely to start their own business, and those businesses create over 25% of new jobs.
Can you imagine if more people with that drive knew how to code? Together we can make it happen.
Meet the Team
Ramiro Rodriguez
Ramiro Rodriguez
Daisy Magnus-Aryitey
Daisy Magnus-Aryitey
Dan Rearick
Dan Rearick
Lori Fernald Khamala
Lori Fernald Khamala
Pam Bash
Pam Bash
Lucy Martinez
Lucy Martinez
Tom Rau
Tom Rau
Alex Rodriguez
Alex Rodriguez
Cruz Núñez
Cruz Núñez
Andrea Hernandez Guzman
Andrea Hernandez Guzman
Mary Alice Moore
Mary Alice Moore
Chuck Anderson
Chuck Anderson
Elsabeth Kidane
Elsabeth Kidane
Narayan Rai
Narayan Rai
Rachel Frenkel
Rachel Frenkel
Reid Russom
Reid Russom
Omer Yariv
Omer Yariv
Ricky Leung
Ricky Leung
Alton Michaux
Alton Michaux
Nicole Villalpando
Nicole Villalpando
Frank Stepanski
Frank Stepanski
Kate Borgen
Kate Borgen
Morgan Carnley
Morgan Carnley
Ming King
Ming King
Katie Brey
Katie Brey
Ashley Garrett
Ashley Garrett
Lillian Wang
Lillian Wang
Board of Directors
Alex Boakye | Vice President, Solutions Development, SAS.
Afua Bruce | Founder & Principal, ANB Advisory Group LLC & Author of The Tech That Comes Next.
Aris Buinevicius | Formerly Co-Founder / CTO, ChannelAdvisor.
Ana Maria Echeverri | Global Head of Business Development, CCI, AI Services, Amazon Web Services.
David Laboy | Principal Consultant, DaLaSo & Associates.
Daisy Magnus-Aryitey | Co-Executive Director, Code the Dream.
Usha Pasi | Consultant and Lecturer, Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life and Derby Entrepreneurship Center, Tufts University.
Carlos Pignataro | Chair, Former CTO, Customer Experience, Cisco.
Manuel Ramos Gonzalez | Software Engineer, IBM.
Dan Rearick | Co-Executive Director, Code the Dream.
Susan Rohol | Partner, Privacy, Cybersecurity & Data Strategy, Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP.
Jennifer Zachary | Treasurer, General Counsel, Merck.