Here I Am on “Here & Now”

I was startled when friends started emailing me to tell me that they were listening to me on NPR’s “Here & Now” the other day. I had no idea I would be on. I had done an interview for WBUR with Meghna Chakrabarti a week or two earlier and it...

What keeps girls (and some boys) out of computer classes

This past Sunday, The New York Times ran an op-ed I wrote about why so many girls still shy away from taking classes in computer science. As a special bonus to those of you who check out my blog, here’s the long version of that essay, which I delivered as a...