In 2013, Joy Buolamwini, CS 12, will take her talents to the U.K., where she’ll study Global Governance and Diplomacy and African Studies at the University of Oxford as a Rhodes scholar. She’s also a 2013 Fulbright scholar and will use her grant to improve access to education in Zambia.
Her past experience developing web and mobile applications for Atlanta’s Teach for America schools will inform her efforts with the Zambian Institute for Sustainable Development to create a program that gives students a foundation in information technology, mobile software development and entrepreneurship.
Buolamwini came to Tech as a computer science major and Stamps President’s Scholar in 2008; following her May 2012 graduation, she and three other Tech alumnae founded a hair and social media company called Techturized.
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