- Author, illustrator, playground designer
- Women in Tech Ally, finalist
The language of computers has always been the language of technology, science and economics. I had a feeling that the story of computers was much more than just serial numbers or clock speeds.
Technology is constantly changing our world, but without words we cannot participate in discussions, influence the direction of development, or explore ideas in computer science from new perspectives. For that, we need language, old and new words, and ways of teaching.
Throughout my career, I have worked to make the concepts of computer science accessible to a wide range of people. My work sometimes takes the form of a children’s book, a playground, a place on a board of directors, or a collection of essays.
I started 15 years ago organising Rails Girls workshops, I write the Hello Ruby book series and related teaching philosophy for children, I designed a computer-themed playground in cooperation with the City of Helsinki, I sit on the board of the Hive coding school, and I wrote a non-fiction book for adults called ‘Nähdä maailma hiekanjyvässä’ (seeing the world in a grain of sand).
Women are in the majority in children’s culture and education, while men dominate in technology. I have balanced between many worlds and always felt most content at self-developed crossroads.
Translation: Notaatio. This is a shortened version, read the original here (in Finnish).