For several years, Reshma Saujani, founder and CEO of Girls who Code—a non-profit that has trained 40,000 girls to do just that—has been perhaps the nation’s fiercest advocate for STEM education and closing the tech sector’s gender gap. Her mission to build “the largest pipeline of future female engineers in the United States” has yielded results (a crop of computer science majors, corporate partnerships) and accolades (a Shorty Award honor, a place on Fortune’s World’s Greatest Leaders list in 2016).
Now, Saujani, who trained as a lawyer, ran for Congress, and worked briefly as a public advocate, is taking on another cause—countering the actions of President Trump.
In an op-ed published Friday on CNBC, Saujani called on fellow citizens to “stand up and fight for an America that welcomes young doers and dreamers”—and against the executive orders Trump issued last Friday evening, effectively banning refugees…