Fereshteh Forough wanted to help women in Afghanistan. She knew that attaining education was difficult, let alone technical training, and the cultural attitudes towards women didn’t help. But she tackled these issues head on by starting the first coding school for women in Afghanistan. She talks to us about how she started the program, how she took on the different challenges her students face, and how her training in computer science and her previous role as a computer science professor affected her decision to open Code To Inspire. Show Links Square (sponsor) Flatiron School (sponsor) Red Hat (sponsor) Actualize (sponsor) Codeland 2019 Codeland Conf Google RISE Awards Code To Inspire Technical University of Berlin Herat Universiy Laboratoria - Maria Costa Coding In Colombia - Juan Pablo Buriticá