Twenty years of building Technovation has produced more than a program. It has produced the people who run it. Staff, board, a global ambassador, and a network of educators, mentors, and chapter leads across 160 countries who together carry the work.
Inspired by her experiences growing up in India and working as an aerospace engineer, over the past 20 years she has built an education model combining mentorship, hands-on learning, and entrepreneurship to prepare the next generation of builders.
80,000+ professional mentors worldwide. 1,000 WTM Ambassadors running Women Techmakers chapters. 215 Chapter Leaders running Technovation programs. 210,000+ alums active in the network, many returning as mentors.
These are the champions whose work changed what this organization has become.
Anu Tewary founded Technovation Girls in 2009, after a weekend spent building a startup from scratch convinced her that high school girls deserved that same experience. She recruited the first 45 students, their mentors, and their instructor, then brought the program to Tara Chklovski to grow.
Anar Simpson mentored a Technovation team in 2012, then spent the next decade as Global Ambassador turning a Bay Area program into a global one. The partnerships behind that growth, from UN Women and TechWomen to Shopify and city governments across Canada, are largely her doing.
Senior leaders from the kinds of companies, firms, and institutions our participants are heading into. They govern the organization and sponsor what comes next.
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The Associate Board is a cohort of emerging leaders, all of them Technovation alum, advancing the mission as advocates, fundraisers, and connectors. They build board-level experience while connecting the next generation of builders to the work, and to each other.
The people who run Technovation day to day across programs, curriculum, operations, partnerships, marketing, and more.
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