Aya Mouallem

Engineering PhD Candidate at Stanford University, Co-Founder of All Girls Code, Stanford University

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Bio: Aya Mouallem is a PhD candidate in engineering education and Knight-Hennessy Scholar at Stanford University. She is an engineer, ed-tech researcher, and designer building accessible education technology to improve the learning experiences of students with disabilities. She co-founded All Girls Code, an award-winning initiative that encourages young girls to pursue STEM in Lebanon and the global south, and she founded the LebNet Tech Fellows program. Aya completed fellowships with Johnson & Johnson and Women Deliver, and she was named one of ten women changing the landscape of leadership worldwide by The New York Times. Her advocacy efforts have been featured by Forbes, Cosmopolitan Middle East, and UN Women in the Arab States. Aya graduated from the American University of Beirut with a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering and from Stanford University with a master’s degree in electrical engineering.

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