Zoe Rooney
- By Skillcrush,
- April 5, 2013
Zoe Rooney is a freelance developer based in Philadelphia and you may be familiar with her work: Zoe has built beautiful sites for the likes of Blogshop, Everly, and Ban.do. If you haven’t seen it, you should definitely go check them out! We sat down with Zoe and asked her some hard-hitting questions about what [...]
Miranda Mulligan
- By Skillcrush,
- December 19, 2012
Miranda Mulligan is a designer, coder, journalist, and now, Executive Director of the Knight Lab at Northwestern University
Islam & Marene at the AFSE
- By Skillcrush,
- December 13, 2012
We sat down with two students at the Academy for Software Engineering to talk about their experience at the school, learning to code. Islam Eshakshuki and Marene Martinez are both in ninth grade.
Emily Davis
- By Skillcrush,
- November 29, 2012
Emily Davis is a PHP developer based in Boston. She currently works at the Broad Institute, a biomedical research foundation run out of MIT and Harvard. In her free time she listens to music, and helps build Skillcrush.
Kim Wilkens
- By Skillcrush,
- November 13, 2012
Kim Wilkens is a teacher, 25 year veteran of the technology industry, and the founder of Teen Tech Girls, a non-profit based in Virginia.
Annie Poon
- By Skillcrush,
- November 6, 2012
Annie Poon is an illustrator, comics writer, and artist based in New York City. She has named 2013 as the ‘Year of the Dog’ and she will be dedicating herself to her friend Puppy. Follow along with his exploits on his website, Oh Puppy. You can also check out Puppy’s anthology.
Heidi Larsen
- By Skillcrush,
- October 18, 2012
Heidi Larsen is the creator and editor of Foodiecrush, an online blog and magazine that curates the best of the best in the food blogging world. With a background in print magazine design, Heidi knows that digital is the future but also knows what makes magazines worth cutting up and pasting all over your wall. [...]
She is doing it, and you can too
- By Skillcrush,
- September 27, 2012
We’re not all super-human supernovas. But we can still make some serious waves.
Amy Quispe
- By Skillcrush,
- August 30, 2012
We first met Amy when she spoke, and totally blew us away, at New York Tech Meetup’s meetup for women. Amy is a native New Yorker who has been coding practically since birth. She is currently studying computer science at Carnegie Mellon where she also heads up ScottyLabs, a student organization whose mission is to [...]
Martha Girdler
- By Skillcrush,
- August 17, 2012
Martha Girdler hails from Franklin, Tennesse, but is spending the summer Brooklyn-side thanks to a generous Etsy grant for this summer’s session of Hacker School (thank you Marc Hedlund!). When not spinning up servers on AWS, or writing about code, Martha enjoys thinking about pugs, updating her ‘sooooo cute’ tumblr stream, and trying to put a dent in the “where are all women in tech?” question.
