Emily Reid is a computer scientist, educator, and entrepreneur. Emily is the VP of Open Learning at AI4ALL where she democratizes access to AI Education. Emily is also the owner of E. E. Reid Consulting, where she created curriculum for and advised schools and businesses to help them build inclusive computing education programs.
Previously, Emily was the founding Director of Education at Girls Who Code, where she was responsible for ensuring that GWC programs were unrivaled in delivering quality computer science education. During her time at GWC, Emily’s team taught over 30,000 girls to code and trained over 2,000 computer science educators. Before Girls Who Code, Emily was a Senior Cyber Security Engineer at the MITRE Corporation and has published research in computational linguistics and cybersecurity. She speaks and writes on diversity, education, and technology.
Emily holds an M.S. in Computer Science with an emphasis in Natural Language Processing from Columbia University and a B.S. in Mathematics from Tufts University. She believes strongly that we can change the world for the better through a diverse and inclusive technology industry, using computer science as a tool to solve pressing social problems.