The Jake Dunlap Show

Tackling The Gender Gap In Technology and Supporting Mothers, To Being the First Indian Woman To Run For U.S. Congress with Reshma Saujani

Episode Summary

This week’s guest was cruising the courtrooms as an Attorney before she surged onto the political stage as the first Indian-American to run for U.S. Congress. Now she is tackling the gender gap in technology as well as advocating for policies to support mothers impacted by the Pandemic. Here is her unbelievable list of achievements: Fortune World’s Greatest Leaders Fortune 40 Under 40 WSJ Magazine Innovator of the Year Forbes Most Powerful Women Changing the World Fast Company 100 Most Creative People She is the winner of the Harold W. McGraw, Jr. Prize in Education. Her 2 Sons and husband The Master of Building Movements, and the Commander of GirlsWhoCode, Reshma Saujani is this week’s guest on “The Jake Dunlap Show.” Reshma grew up in Schamburg, Illinois to parents who formerly lived in Uganda. She studied Political Science at the University of Illinois before obtaining her Master of Political Policy degree from Harvard, and later obtained her Juris Doctor from Yale Law School. She started her career as an Associate at Davis, Polk, and Wardwell to taking additional Attorney and Associate General Counsel roles. Later Reshma went on to become a Deputy COO and Former Deputy General Counsel. In 2009, she became the first Indian-American Woman to run for congress in New York’s 14th District. Now, Reshma is the Founder/CEO of both Girls Who Code (A Non-profit working close the gender gap in technology and change the image of what a programmer looks like), as well as the Founder/CEO of Marshall Plan for Moms (which is a national movement to center mothers in our economic recovery and value their labor by advocating public and private sector policies that support moms. Enjoy this week’s episode with Reshma Saujani. Achievements: Fortune World’s Greatest Leaders Fortune 40 Under 40 WSJ Magazine Innovator of the Year Forbes Most Powerful Women Changing the World Fast Company 100 Most Creative People Harold W. McGraw, Jr. Prize in Education. Books: Women Who Don’t Wait in Line: Break the Mold, Lead the Way (2013) Girls Who Code: Learn to Code and Change the World (2017) Brave, Not Perfect: Fear Less, Fail More, and Live Bolder (2018) Pay Up: The Future of Women and WOrk (and Why It’s Different Than You Think (March 2022) Board Involvement: Board of Overseers for Harvard University Board of Trustees of the Economic Club of New York Board of Directors for mParticle. Social Links: @reshmasaujani on Instagram and Twitter LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/reshma-saujani/ Reshma’s Social Media: Websites: https://girlswhocode.com/ , https://marshallplanformoms.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/reshma-saujani/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/reshmasaujani?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/reshmasaujani/?hl=en Jake Dunlap: Personal Site - http://jakedunlap.com/ LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jakedunlap/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/JakeTDunlap Instagram - http://instagram.com/jake\_dunlap _ Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/JakeTDunlap/ Skaled: Website - https://skaled.com/ LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/skaled

Episode Notes

This week’s guest was cruising the courtrooms as an Attorney before she surged onto the political stage as the first Indian-American Woman to run for U.S. Congress. Now she is tackling the gender gap in technology as well as advocating for policies to support mothers impacted by the Pandemic.

Here is her unbelievable list of achievements:

Fortune World’s Greatest Leaders
Fortune 40 Under 40
WSJ Magazine Innovator of the Year
Forbes Most Powerful Women Changing the World
Fast Company 100 Most Creative People
She is the winner of the Harold W. McGraw, Jr. Prize in Education.
Her 2 Sons and husband

The Master of Building Movements, and the Commander of GirlsWhoCode, Reshma Saujani is this week’s guest on “The Jake Dunlap Show.”

Reshma grew up in Schamburg, Illinois to parents who formerly lived in Uganda. She studied Political Science at the University of Illinois before obtaining her Master of Political Policy degree from Harvard, and later obtained her Juris Doctor from Yale Law School.

She started her career as an Associate at Davis, Polk, and Wardwell to taking additional Attorney and Associate General Counsel roles. Later Reshma went on to become a Deputy COO and Former Deputy General Counsel. In 2009, she became the first Indian-American Woman to run for congress in New York’s 14th District.

Now, Reshma is the Founder/CEO of both Girls Who Code (A Non-profit working close the gender gap in technology and change the image of what a programmer looks like), as well as the Founder/CEO of Marshall Plan for Moms (which is a national movement to center mothers in our economic recovery and value their labor by advocating public and private sector policies that support moms.

Enjoy this week’s episode with Reshma Saujani.

Achievements: