CODE TO (INSPIRE)

“WE ARE GOING TO EMPOWER GIRLS ONLINE WITHOUT BEING WORRIED OF PHYSICAL & GEOGRAPHICAL DISTANCES.” In 2015, Fereshteh Forough, a former professor of computer science at Herat University, created an all-female coding school in Afghanistan. Code to Inspire is a nonprofit organization committed to teaching female students in Afghanistan how to code. It aims to […]

SABRINA GONZALEZ PASTERSKI

Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski, a physicist and Harvard Ph.D. candidate, has been awarded one of Marie Claire’s first-ever Young Women’s Honors. She has been named-checked by Stephen Hawking, called “the next Einstein” by her Harvard mentors, and currently has a job offer from Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. As a young girl, Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski wanted to design […]

JENNIFER DOUDNA

Jennifer Doudna was named one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people in the world in 2015. She is a biochemist at the University of California, Berkeley, and co-inventor of CRISPR. She, along with Emmanuelle Charpentier, developed CRISPR to study the effects of genes in human development. Doudna wrote that the “real excitement–and power–in genetics […]