Who We Are
We're a team of students from around the country passionate about computer science and equality. Founded in the spring of 2020, CodeHers Collective's mission is to help inspire and encourage girls to pursue coding.
About Our Team
Our team is composed of students from different backgrounds, identities, ages, and geographical areas. The mission of our initiative is to enable girls and other underrepresented groups to envision themselves in computer science — and that starts with ensuring that our students are able to see people like them teaching and organizing our classes.
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Meet Our Team Leaders
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Siqi Li
Executive Director + Founder
Siqi Li is a senior at Dublin High School. As the executive director of CodeHers and officer of her school's engineering club, Siqi is passionate about encouraging other girls to pursue STEM. When she’s not learning or teaching coding, Siqi can be found listening to lofi or trying new foods.
Franklin Tay
CFO + Instruction Lead
Franklin Tay is a senior at Dublin High School. As CFO and Lead Instructor of CodeHers, he is instrumental not only with planning and managing the finances of the organization, but also the curriculum development and instruction delivery. He is passionate about bridging the gender gap in STEM for women, and advocating for gender equality through his active roles in CoreHers. In his free time, he loves playing violin and video games.
Jade Li
Instructor + Finance Lead
Jade is a junior at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN. Aside from coding, she enjoys spending time with her bunny and rewatching sitcoms. Jade is also a member of the Vanderbilt running club and asian association.
Pingyao Liu
Content Lead
Pingyao is a freshman at UCLA majoring in Computational and Systems Biology. She has always been interested in computer science, but she's become passionate about the applications of computer science through biology. Outside of academics, she loves to play violin, piano, and hang out with friends.
Yiheng Song
Communications Lead
Yiheng is a senior at Foothill High School and enjoys playing video games, programming, baking, and drawing. His favorite food is udon, a type of Japanese noodles, and his favorite drink is bubble tea. He is involved with multiple extracurriculars in and out of school, including Writer's club, fencing, and robotics.
Cindy Long
Marketing Lead
Cindy Long is a senior attending Amador Valley High School in California. For over eight years, she has competed nationally as a member of a synchronized skating team. Aside from skating, she aims to involve herself in computer science. As an officer of her Girl Who Code club and CodeHers Collective executive, Sherry strives to expand her skillset and promote coding to other young aspiring programmers.
About Our Organization
CodeHers Collective is a student-led organization. We believe that education should be accessible — and that's why we're committed to providing free quality introductions to computer science for all students.
We create and utilize open-source content in order to teach students the basics of computer science. Our goal is to allow our students to explore different fields of computer science — web development, game development, app creation — and create their own projects from scratch. We're working to instill a love of coding in them and empower them to continue their computer science journeys beyond just the classes we teach.