Hadi PartoviVerified account

As many of us have shared including @ayahbdeir so eloquently in her medium post; unfortunately teaching coding in schools does not answer all of the questions around access to tech esp for women and poc.

Finally you’ve mentioned the great work from several of the women on your team many of whom which I’ve had the pleasure of meeting. Real talk? Seems like a missed opportunity NOT to give them the platform to rep for http://code.org  especially on this issue.

Believe me when I tell you I felt the oversight there as much as would any woman in a leadership role who is forced to do the heavy lifting in an organization while as it’s been said in articles a “charismatic male” gets the public acclaim and credit.

Thanks so much, especially for your generously noncritical tone. I'm not going to talk about the teachers - teachers got more air-time on the TV piece than I did, which made me very happy. That's not what was left out of the piece.

I think the hardest thing you ask is the idea of declining 60 Minutes altogether. That seems wrong for the stakeholders in @codeorg's community. I need to digest whether I could have done this, esp in context that I was told this was a piece together with @ayahbdeir.

Of course, you also know that's a "large ask" :-)

Yup. Definitely understand that. But it was also an opportunity “during” the interview to elevate other contributors. I’ve done this in interviews, on stage, with funders in private discussions for YEARS.