Sarah Moran
Co-founder & CEO
Learned to code at five, got pushed out of tech in Year 10, and has been fighting to stop it happening to other girls ever since.
Sarah’s story
Sarah learned to code when she was five and got pushed out of tech in Year 10 (her teacher didn’t understand the code behind her website — despite it being very excellent). She gets angry when women and girls who are good at tech get pushed out, so she fights to stop it happening to others.
Winner of The Australian Women’s Weekly Women of the Future (2018) — then a judge — a UN Women Australia speaker, and a regular technology commentator on The Today Show. Telling the Girl Geek Academy story, finding great people to work with, and making sure there’s always money in the bank is her job as CEO.
What Sarah has built at Girl Geek Academy
- Leads Girl Geek Academy as CEO: the story, the people and the money in the bank.
- Built AI High with Lisy Kane, first delivered with the Telstra Foundation.
- Leads our policy work, from our submission to the national Diversity in STEM Review to our campaign to make sure tech is taught to every student until the end of Year 8.
- Speaks and comments on women, girls and technology, from The Today Show to UN Women Australia and the ABC.
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In Sarah’s words
“Gender inequality in STEM industries limits progress and innovation. The experiences of diverse women and girls is crucial in solving the problems that shape our lives.”
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The five founders
From the news
- ABC Splash talks with CEO Sarah Moran
- CEO Sarah Moran and Helen Sultana cast in Common Sense!
- Our CEO speaks at Web Summit in Portugal on “Hacking the gender divide in investing and company leadership”
- Girl Geek Academy tours Experts-in-Residence Shruti Shah and Sydney Thomas by SARAH MORAN
- Introducing Girl Geeks, The Book Series