Pooja Chandrashekar

Originally from Northern Virginia, Pooja is currently a student at Harvard University concentrating in biomedical engineering with a secondary in global health and health policy. She is the founder of ProjectCSGIRLS (www.projectcsgirls.com), a national youth-driven nonprofit working to close the tech gender gap by running a national computer science competition for middle school girls and hosting workshops around the country. An advocate and speaker for encouraging girls in STEM, she has spoken about the underrepresentation of women in technology and her outreach work at conferences and summits around the country. Pooja has been recognized by organizations including the National Center for Women in Information Technology and the Clinton Foundation, and her work and writing have appeared in the Huffington Post, Women 2.0, and the Washington Post, among others.