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Cybersecurity Summit 2021: Girls Who Code Partnership
https://www.cisa.gov/cybersummit-2021-session-day-3-girls-who-code-partnership
About the Speakers
Jen Easterly, Director, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)
Dr. Tarika Barrett, CEO, Girls Who Code
About CISA (Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency)
CISA builds the national capacity to defend against cyber attacks and works with the federal government to provide cybersecurity tools, incident response services and assessment capabilities to safeguard the ‘.gov’ networks that support the essential operations of partner departments and agencies.
https://www.cisa.gov/about-cisa
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybersecurity_and_Infrastructure_Security_Agency
About Girls Who Code
https://www.cisa.gov/cybersummit-2021-session-day-3-girls-who-code-partnership
About the Speakers
Jen Easterly, Director, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)
Jen Easterly is the Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). Ms. Easterly was nominated by President Biden in April 2021 and unanimously confirmed by the Senate on July 12, 2021. As Director, Ms. Easterly leads CISA’s efforts to protect and defend civilian government networks, manage systemic risk to national critical functions, and collaborate with State, Local, Tribal, and Territorial partners as well as with the private sector to ensure the security and resilience of the Nation’s cyber and physical infrastructure.
Dr. Tarika Barrett, CEO, Girls Who Code
Dr. Tarika Barrett is the CEO of Girls Who Code, an international non-profit organization working to close the gender gap in technology that has served over 450,000 students to date. Tarika started her career as an educator and has spent two decades building educational pathways for young people at organizations like iMentor, the New York City Department of Education, New Visions for Public Schools, and New York University’s Center for Research on Teaching and Learning. A graduate of Brooklyn College, Tarika has an M.A. in Deaf Education from Columbia Teachers College and a Ph.D. in Teaching and Learning from New York University. Tarika served on the boards of CSforALL, Eskolta, McGraw Hill and she also sits on AT&T's Accelerator Advisory Board. She is the recipient of the New York University’s Steinhardt School Dorothy Height Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award.
About CISA (Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency)
CISA builds the national capacity to defend against cyber attacks and works with the federal government to provide cybersecurity tools, incident response services and assessment capabilities to safeguard the ‘.gov’ networks that support the essential operations of partner departments and agencies.
https://www.cisa.gov/about-cisa
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybersecurity_and_Infrastructure_Security_Agency
Girls Who Code is a nonprofit organization which aims to support and increase the number of women in computer science by equipping young women with the necessary computing skills to pursue 21st century opportunities. The organization works toward closing the gender employment difference in technology, and to change the image of what a programmer looks like. They host a seven-week Summer Immersion Program, a two-week specialized Campus Program, after school Clubs, and a New York Times best-selling Penguin 13-book series.
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