Women Who Reign: Anagha Krishnan

“I’ve got nothing to do today but smile.” Simon and Garfunkel

Meet Anagha Krishnan, founder of TheGirlCodeProject, which aims to “debug the Girl Code” by leveraging computer science to teach young girls self-efficacy. She is a Barry M. Goldwater Scholar and Stamps President’s Scholar at Georgia Tech.
Fun Fact: Anagha loves eating broccoli because it makes her feel like a giant eating little trees.
Song that makes Anagha want to dance:
“Someone Singing Along” by James Blunt

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I heaved a sigh of relief, letting my tense shoulders relax. I had just finished presenting my research at the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s 2016 conference in Washington D.C. It had been the culmination of years of research in a biophysics lab at UT Dallas and UT Southwestern —…