I am the co-Founder and Executive Director of ScriptEd, and start-up nonprofit that aims to increase access to careers in technology by offering computer-programming classes in low-income high schools. Before beginning ScriptEd, I was the Pro Bono Coordinator at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, LLP, a large international law firm. Before that, I was a teacher.

ScriptEd won the Dewey Winburne Community Service Award from South by Southwest, the Judges' Choice Award in the Millennial Impact Challenge from IGNITEgood and Huffington Post, the Teach for America Social Innovation Award, and the Emerging Innovator Award from American Express and the My Voice Our City Award from Ashoka. ScriptEd has been recognized by the White House as a Champion of Change for Tech Inclusion and been has been featured in Smithsonian, Time, Huffington Post, CBS , Technically Brooklyn and the Chronicle of Philanthropy, and I was a featured speaker at TEDxNYED.

When I started ScriptEd, I searched far and wide for a class on starting up a nonprofit, and couldn't find much. Now that I've started an organization, several people have asked for my advice on starting-up their own nonprofits. This is why I want to teach this class!

Maurya Couvares

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