Bringing coding skills to underserved communities | Guest Brianne Caplan

Brianne Caplan is the founder and executive director of Code Your Dreams, a non-profit that brings knowledge, accessibility and excitement about programming and tech to learners from age 5 to adulthood in underserved communities. Caplan tells some incredible stories, like the women’s coding and data analysis group in Burundi, exciting coding projects for students interested in art, music and dance and why her experience inadvertently creating a non-profit company that was incorporated as a for-profit was a learning experience that helped kickstart Code Your Dreams! This one’s inspiring, so I hope you’ll keep it here for Cyber Work.– Get your FREE cybersecurity training resources: https://www.infosecinstitute.com/free– View Cyber Work Podcast transcripts and additional episodes: https://www.infosecinstitute.com/podcast0:00 - Coding for underserved communities 3:11 - Brianne Caplan's start in cybersecurity8:04 - Cash for Schools10:50 - What is Code Your Dreams?14:40 - How Code Your Dreams works17:52 - Gaps in cybersecurity school education21:00 - Baseline tech literacy for grade school23:30 - Popular Code Your Dreams activities27:08 - After Code Your Dreams35:11 - Volunteer for Code Your Dreams37:00 - Bring Code Your Dreams to your school39:40 - Get in touch with Brianne Caplan40:15 - OutroAbout InfosecInfosec’s mission is to put people at the center of cybersecurity. We help IT and security professionals advance their careers with skills development and certifications while empowering all employees with security awareness and phishing training to stay cyber-safe at work and home. More than 70% of the Fortune 500 have relied on Infosec Skills to develop their security talent, and more than 5 million learners worldwide are more cyber-resilient from Infosec IQ’s security awareness training. Learn more at infosecinstitute.com.