Guest

I'm Leigh Ann DeLyser, I'm the Co-Founder and Executive Director of an organization called Computer Science For All. We work across the United States to make sure that computer science is embedded in the education pathway of youth. And really focus on how do we bring this very modern, technological creativity to kids all over the country. I grew up in Upstate New York, on a mountain, half a mile down a dirt road, in a log cabin my father built in the woods. And my senior year of high school, I walked into the guidance counselor's office, and I said I need a book of scholarships. Because my dad is a truck driver, and I knew that I would need help to pay for college. And yet my guidance counselor looked at me and she goes, you wanna go to college? And in that moment, I knew that the people around me underestimated me. And I went to school and I studied to be a teacher. And a decade and a half later realized that I could do more than that. And I went back to college, I got a PhD in Computer Science. Sometimes I speak to younger men and I always say, be the solution to someone else's problems. And to take a look out there in the world and say what's the problem that needs solving? And there's such an opportunity to build 

2023 SXSW
Interviewed in Austin, TX, but works in New York, NY
advanced-degree
entrepreneur

Co-Founder & Executive Director

You want to go to college? That's surprising.

Leigh Ann DeLyser

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