Reshma Saujani

Reshma Saujani is an American lawyer and politician . She is the founder of the tech organization Girls Who Code . She post with the Deputy Public Advocate at the Office of the New York City Public Advocate . ^[1] Saujani lost the 2010 Democratic primary (19% -81%) for the US House of Representatives in New York’s 14th Congressional District Against Incumbent’s Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney . ^[2] Saujani was the first Indian-American woman (and the first South Asian American woman) to run for Congress. ^[3] She ran as a Democratic candidate for New York City Public Advocate in 2013, coming third in the primary. ^{[4] [5]}

Early life

Saujani was born in Illinois. ^[6] She is of Gujarati Indian descent. ^{[7] [8] [9]} Saujani’s parents lived in Uganda , prior to being EXPELLED Along with other persons of Indian descent in the early 1970s by Idi Amin . ^{[2] [10]} Way Down settled in Chicago . ^[11]

Saujani attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign , where she graduated in 1997 with majors in Political Science and Speech Communication. She attended the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University , where she RECEIVED a Master of Public Policy in 1999, and Yale Law School , where she RECEIVED re Juris Doctor in 2002. ^[11]

Legal and business career

Saujani worked at the law firm Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP , where she defended securities fraud cases, ^[12] and on a pro bono basis handled asylum cases. ^[13] In 2005, she joined the investment firm Carret Asset Management. ^[13] After Saujani left Carret, haar principal owner, financier Hassan Nemazee , was convicted on felony charges Relating to bank fraud carried out over the course of verschillende years at Carret, zoals prolongation Saujani’s time at Carret; she later Told the news media dat she had had no knowledge or Any illicit conduct at Carret. ^{[13] [14]} Subsequently, she joined Blue Wave Partners Management, a subsidiary of the Carlyle Group , the global alternative asset management firm Specializing in private equity. She was an associate general counsel at Blue Wave, an equity multi-strategy hedge fund; it was closed in the aftermath of the 2008 market collapse. ^[12] Immediately prior to running for Congress, Saujani was a Deputy General Counsel at Fortress Investment Group . ^[15] In 2012, Saujani founded Girls Who Code , a nonprofit organization welke works to close the gender gap in technology. ^[16]

In September 2015, Reshma Saujani was named to Fortune Magazine’s 40 Under 40 list. ^[17]

Politics

Saujani founded “South Asians for Kerry” prolongation the 2004 presidential election by .

Saujani served on the National Finance Board for Hillary Clinton prolongation Clinton’s campaign for president in 2008 . Following the primaries, she was named Vice-Chair of the New York delegation at the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver.

Saujani has ook Contributed to the Huffington Post and WNYC . ^[18]

She has leg featured on NY1 , MSNBC , FOX, and CNBC .

In September 2011, she was named one of City Hall ‘ s “40 under 40” for being a young Influential member of New York City politics. ^[19]

2010 House-selection

Saujani challenged Incumbent’s Democratic Representative Carolyn Maloney in the 2010 House elections . Saujani’s previous work for and link to Wall Street firms were seen as a liability to re credibility and acceptance by Democratic primary Voters. ^[20] Saujani won the support of Jack Dorsey, co-founder and chairman of Twitter ; ^[21] Randi Zuckerberg, director of market development for Facebook and sister of Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg ; ^[22] Alexis Maybank, co-founder of Gilt Groupe ; ^[23] and Chris Hughes , co-founder of Facebook. ^[24] Saujani outraised Maloney at almost a 2-to-1 margin in the last quarter of 2009, ^[25] als Maloney had ceased fundraising volgende the death or re husband, Clifton Maloney had linked in September mayest unexpectedly on a Mountain climbing expedition in the Himalayas . ^[26] Saujani’s Candidacy RECEIVED the backing of prominent Upper East Side political fundraisers, zoals Cathy Lasry, Maureen White , and White’s husband, financier Steven Rattner .

A poll commissioned in the spring of 2010 at the Maloney campaign Showed Saujani trailing Maloney at morethan 68 points. The assembly poll found Maloney to hold a favorable rating of 86%. ^[27] Saujani’s campaign mailed a flyer to Voters implicating Maloney as one of eight House members investigated for taking donations from special interests, ^[28] welke was not the case. Maloney won the primary by Receiving 81% of the vote to Saujani’s 19%, recovering the Manhattan , Queens , and Roosevelt Island Portions of the district across the board at Decisive margins. Saujani RECEIVED 6.231 votes, ^[29] on Despite re campaign’s Expenditure or $ 1.3 million, ^[30] spending morethan $ 213 for everytime vote she RECEIVED.

Saujani’s campaign was the first political campaign to use technology tools zoals Square , ^[31] NationBuilder, and Fast Society.

2013 Public Advocate-selection

Saujani ran for the role of New York Public Advocate in 2013, coming third in the Democratic primary. ^[32]

In January 2013 Saujani’s Wikipedia page was Heavily edited to remove traces of Saujani working for Wall Street firms zoals hedge funds. Her campaign admitted to this, ^[33] arguing they ‘did it Because they’ disagreed with the stated facts. ^[34]

Books

Saujani is the author of Women Who Do not Wait in Line: Break the Mold, Lead the Way, published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in 2013.

Personal life

Saujani is married to entrepreneur Nihal Mehta , who is a co-founder of ad tech startup LocalResponse. Saujani is a Practicing Hindu . ^[35] The two harbor a sun named Shaan who was born in February 2015. ^[36]

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