The CEO of Girls Who Code was born and raised between Brooklyn, New York and Kingston, Jamaica. Her grandmother dropped out of school in the sixth grade back in Jamaica after her mother died to help work on the family farm and raise her seven younger siblings. "I'm blessed to say that I stand on the shoulders of just generations of inspiration," she says.
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