Our People

Jim Hollis
Executive Director
Nina Demediuk
Sr. Program Manager
Gabriella Lora
Development & 
Special STEM Projects
William Dummitt
Pacific Northwest Coordinator
Traye Turner
Robotics, AI & Coding Instructor
Deanna Walter
Sr. Reserch Assistant

Jenni Williams
Curriculum Design  
Beth Injasoulian
Professional Development
& Trainer

Meet our fellows

Our philosophy is simple — hire a team of diverse, passionate people and foster a culture that empowers you to do your best work.
Olivia Rhye
Founder & CEO
Former co-founder of Opendoor. Early staff at Spotify and Clearbit.
Maha Ghafoor
University of California, Berkeley
Lead engineering teams at Figma, Pitch, and Protocol Labs.
Danielle Torres
Product Manager
Former PM for Linear, Lambda School, and On Deck.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Former frontend dev for Linear, Coinbase, and Postscript.
Azura Beck
Backend Developer
Lead backend dev at Clearbit. Former Clearbit and Loom.
Hailey Sato
Product Designer
Founding design team at Figma. Former Pleo, Stripe, and Tile.
Zander
UX Researcher
Lead user research for Slack. Contractor for Netflix and Udacity.
Orlando Diggs
Customer Success
Lead CX at Wealthsimple. Former PagerDuty and Sqreen.
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