Mindy Kaling Helps Google Teach Girls to Code

Mindy Kaling

Pic via Taylor Hill/Filmmagic for Google

We’re all aware that the tech world faces a gender balance issue that is much more than just a simple “public relations problem”. We recently posted on a coming documentary designed to highlight female entrepreneurs, but Google is spending millions of bucks to address the lack of women in the coding community–and they picked an unlikely celebrity to help spread the message: actress/writer Mindy Kaling.

This morning Kaling explained a bit more about the strategy and her status as spokeswoman for “geeky” girls everywhere in an interview with WNYC’s New Tech City.

Kaling on the basic challenge:

“I was intimidated by coding…I thought it was for my older brother…I didn’t feel particularly encouraged to do it by teachers either…it seems very solitary.”

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