Code to Change the World Day will feature:

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  Code Montage promotes social innovation while helping coders improve their skills. CodeMontage was born out of the belief that computing is the most efficient way to improve the human experience, and that software developers become the best through lots of practice building real applications. We know from teaching beginners that there’s a frustrating gap between learning to code and being able to build robust applications, and we know from hiring and mentoring developers that experience can’t be replaced with canned tutorials.

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  Coraline Ada Ehmke is an intersectional technologist with a passion for mentoring, learning, refactoring, and developing artificially intelligent IRC bots. She's a senior engineer at Instructure, developing software used by millions of students and teachers. Coraline organizes Chicago Women Developers, OpenSourceForWomen.org, and LGBTech.org. She is on the speaker selection committee for RailsConf and created the Open Source Contributor Covenant.

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  Courteney Ervin is an Events Platform Engineer at CodeMontage. The confluence of open source and social good were the seed of her tech career, and she is thrilled to be writing code at the junction of such important movements. Courteney is also firmly committed to fostering a more diverse tech industry through accessible educational opportunities. Previously, she was a founding teacher of Dev Bootcamp’s NYC campus and has led events and tech projects at a variety of nonprofits.

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  Jen Myers is a web designer/developer, speaker, teacher and writer located in Chicago, and the Director of Open Source Curriculum at online training course provider Pluralsight. In 2014, she founded Code and Cupcakes, a series of mother/daughter beginner coding events and currently lead workshops on a regular basis. In 2011, Jen founded the Columbus, Ohio chapter of Girl Develop It, a group that provides introductory coding classes aimed at women, and have been involved with GDI as an instructor and advisor since. Jen speaks widely about topics related to design, development and diversity in the technology field, and focus on finding new ways to make both technology and technology education accessible to everyone.

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  Julia Elman is a designer, developer, author and public speaker from the Python community. She was appointed as a Django Software Foundation Member based on her contributions to the Django community. and co-authored Lightweight Django for O’Reilly Media in November 2014. Julia also focuses computer science in education and has helped establish several groups and programs to teach computer science to adults and teens. She leads PyLadies Raleigh-Durham and, in January 2013, she helped start a local chapter of Girl Develop It whose focus is to empower women through code. GDIRDU has grown to over 1,000 members, taught over 100 classes to help empower women through coding and is celebrating its second anniversary.

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  Vanessa Hurst is a data-focused technologist and advocate of coding for humanity, currently building CodeMontage. She founded Developers for Good and co-founded Girl Develop It. Vanessa advises Ohours and scouts for awesome open source projects for Mozilla WebFWD. She love tigers, marshmallows, chai lattes, and really big ideas.

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