Women Who Reign: Grace Zhang

“There is some good in the world, and it is worth fighting for” — JRR Tolkien

Tell us about yourself along with a fun fact!
Hi, I’m Grace! I am a senior at Princeton High School who enjoys sea salt dark chocolate and procrastinating on Goodreads. I’m the founder and program leader of appsForGirls (appsforgirlscamp.com), an interdisciplinary computer science camp funded by the National Center for Women & Technology. Through a curriculum built on CS + X, rising 6th to 9th girls learn app development, the impacts of computer science on society, and the power of females in technology through mentors, speakers, field trips, career fairs, and more.

As a person who has very diverse interests in literature and computing, I chose to make the program interdisciplinary to make CS hopefully more familiar by combining it with a field the girl already enjoyed or cared about — especially fields outside of STEM such as fashion, art, sports, and music.

What # would define your life journey?
#gothroughthingsgrowthroughthings

Favorite website / app:
Spotify, Goodreads, Tumblr, Google Calendar, Youtube, Evernote, The New Yorker

Someone who inspires you and knowledge they have imparted:
I am so fortunate in having an extremely great…