Sarah Guthals received her PhD from UCSD in Computer Science specializing in CS Education in 2014. During graduate school she co-founded ThoughtSTEM, a company that teaches children to code through software and courses. She has written a dozen technical books targeted at students and was recently named Forbes 30 under 30 in Science and UCSD’s 40 under 40 Alumni. She’s taught in both the computer science and education departments at UCSD and was an engineering manager at GitHub. She is currently a principal program manager at a Microsoft focused on education. Her passion is making coding accessible to everyone, with the goal of making it a basic literacy.