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COMPUTER SCIENCE TEACHERS OF SOUTH DAKOTA WILL BE SPONSORING NATIONAL POLICY MAKER-- RUTHE FARMER

National Speaker Ruthe Farmer is an American policymaker and activist focused on increasing participation in technology and engineering. She will be virtually presenting at the South Dakota Computer Science Teachers Meeting on February 15, 2022 at 8 pm CST/ 7 pm MST. Online

The Computer Science Teachers Association of South Dakota would like to announce a free virtual presentation by Ruthe Farmer.

Vice President of CSTA South Dakota, Rise Jongeling stated “This is a great opportunity to listen to and experience a computer science advocate on the national and global level, Ruthe Farmer will encourage, support and not disappoint all who listen.”

Ruthe Farmer is a talent entrepreneur laser-focused on inclusion. She is the founder and CEO of the Last Mile Education Fund and most recently was chief evangelist at CSforALL. As senior policy advisor for tech inclusion at the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy where she led implementation of President Obama’s call to action for Computer Science for All (CSforAll). While at the White House, Farmer launched the Summit on Computer Science for All and persuaded more than 500 community partners to make public commitments to advance and support computer science for students.

Prior to joining the White House, Farmer served as chief strategy and growth officer at the National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) and director of the NCWIT K-12 Alliance, for eight years. She served as the 2012 chair of Computer Science Education Week and was named a White House Champion of Change for Technology Inclusion in 2013. The Education UK Alumni Award for Social Impact in 2015.

Well known as an advocate for equity and inclusion in technology, Farmer has been invited to speak at the United Nations, the European Parliament, the White House, the Washington Post, TEDxBeaconStreet, Oxford University, the Federal Reserve, the US

Patent and Trademark Office, and many universities and colleges. She has been an advisor to PBS SciGirls Latina and SciGirls Code, RoadTrip Nation, the Girls Choice Awards, and has served on the high-level advisory board of the European Centre for Women in Technology.

Ruthe Farmer currently serves in an advisory capacity for Girls Computing League, Project CS Girls, Reinvented Magazine, E4USA, the Day One Project, and Schmidt Futures. Farmer has been a guest contributor to TechCrunch and the Shriver Report, and has been featured in Forbes, The Financial Times, TechRepublic and EdScoop. She holds a BA in Communications and German from Lewis & Clark College and an MBA focused on Social Entrepreneurship and Marketing from the University of Oxford

CSTA-SD is launching this professional development opportunity by providing a virtual professional development and networking session on Wednesday. February 15, 2022 at 8 pm CST/ 7 pm MST. Online Sign up HERE.

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