TEDxAmherst

We are so excited to announce our seventh and final speaker at TEDx Amherst 2021: Kavya Krishna

Kavya is the Co-founder of the Society of Women Coders (SOWCoders), a women-led organization that works to encourage young girls from developing nations to opt for education and careers in STEM, by conducting free coding and Enterpreneurship camps and providing mentorship. She also works as a Senior analyst at SiriusXM in NewYork. Through SOWCoders,she has worked with government agencies and civic organizations in Haiti, Kenya, Afghanistan,Kazakhstan and Belize to establish coding camps, and has personally taught at several of them. She is also involved with the Code in place Initiative at Stanford University as a Section Leader. She is an advocate of Women Education especially in the developing world.