Fereshteh Forough is founder of Code to Inspire, the first all-female coding school in Afghanistan. Ambition has taken her from refugee to CEO
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On Friday, following a busy week of new product announcements for the biggest company in the world, Apple’s CEO Tim Cook delivered the commencement address at MIT’s graduation ceremony. Like his predecessor Steve Jobs, Cook described personal challenges that led him to the worldview he holds today.
In 2015 and 2016, more than 2 million people fled their homes to seek refuge in Europe. People are waiting up to 18 months in a refugee camp for their asylum decisions. During this time, they are often in the middle of nowhere with nothing to do. They have time to kill. A lot of time. So we started teaching them how to code.
Karlie Kloss, the supermodel, Instagram star, business woman, YouTube sensation, and coder, has decided to tackle the gender wage gap. The gap is real insofar as men and women tend to choose different lines of work, and there are many reasons why people may do that, but culture is a big one. This is what Kloss seeks to change.
Pardoning the turkeys
This is the pathetic nature of this Bennington Ad Cut-out Obama. Truly, a defining moment here, and one there, well, compiled, yes, Obama is rotten to the core, but it’s easy to play the current events and cultural consumerism game with this poser, this little Big Man. What was it, Eisenhower – that beastly thing – pardoned how many in his tenure as CEO of Corporate Amerika? Over 1,100. How many did Ray-Gun Committee on un-American (sic) Activities Ronald pardon? Over 300? We’re talking about incarcerated humans.
