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Sasha Laundy '06 Talks Self-Directing Her Career in Tech Start-Ups

Sasha Laundy '06

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New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman recently wrote a piece highlighting the spirit of innovation that future generations will need to "find" jobs. In fact, finding jobs, he says, will be obsolete. He says the jobs of the future will be self-created and directed. But what will these jobs look like? And how can an average person create these jobs for themselves? ...

Sasha Laundy '06 went from teaching physics and science to high school students to working in start-ups. She was the fourth employee of the educational tech start-up Code Academy. She also founded Women Who Code.

Sasha Laundy graduated from Swarthmore in 2006 with a B.A. in physics. 

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