Resham Saujani

Introduction 

Reshma Saujani is an American legitimate consultant and government official. She is the originator of the tech affiliation Girls Who Code. She was at that point the Deputy Public Advocate at the Office of the New York City Public Advocate. Saujani lost the 2010 Democratic vital (19%-81%) for the U.S. Spot of Representatives in New York's fourteenth congressional area against officeholder Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney. Saujani was the fundamental Indian-American woman (and the important South Asian American woman) to continue running for Congress. She continued running as a Democratic contender for New York City Public Advocate in 2013, coming third in the vital.

Early life 

Saujani was imagined in Illinois. She is of Gujarati Indian dive. Saujani's people lived in Uganda, before being evacuated close by various persons of Indian fall in the mid 1970s by Idi Amin. They settled in Chicago.

Saujani went to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she graduated in 1997 with majors in Political Science and Speech Communication. She went to the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, where she got a Master of Public Policy in 1999, and Yale Law School, where she got her Juris Doctor in 2002

Legitimate and business occupation 

Saujani worked at the law office Davis Polk and Wardwell LLP, where she ensured securities coercion cases, and on an expert bono premise dealt with asylum cases. In 2005, she joined the hypothesis firm Carret Asset Management. After Saujani left Carret, its key proprietor, moneylender Hassan Nemazee, was prosecuted on wrongdoing claims relating to bank distortion finished through the range of a long time at Carret, including in the midst of Saujani's chance at Carret; she later told the news media that she had no learning of any unlawful conduct at Carret. Thusly, she joined Blue Wave Partners Management, a reinforcement of the Carlyle Group, the overall choice asset organization firm speak to extensive power in private quality. She was an accomplice general bearing at Blue Wave, a quality multi-methodology bolster speculations; it was closed in the aftermath of the 2008 business segment breakdown. Speedily going before running for Congress, Saujani was a delegate general heading at Fortress Investment Group. In 2012, Saujani built up Girls Who Code, a beneficent affiliation which endeavors to close the sex gap in advancement.

In September 2015, Reshma Saujani was named to Fortune Magazine's 40 Under 40 list.

Administrative issues 

Saujani built up "South Asians for Kerry" in the midst of the 2004 presidential choice.

Saujani served on the National Finance Board for Hillary Clinton in the midst of Clinton's campaign for president in 2008. Taking after the primaries, she was named Vice-Chair of the New York arrangement at the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver.

Saujani has similarly added to the Huffington Post and WNYC.

She has been incorporated on NY1, MSNBC, FOX, and CNBC.

In September 2011, she was named one of City Hall's "40 under 40" for being an energetic convincing individual from New York City authoritative issues.

2010 House choice

Saujani tried officeholder Democratic Representative Carolyn Maloney in the 2010 House choices. Saujani's past work for and association with Wall Street firms was seen as a danger to her credibility and affirmation by Democratic key voters. Saujani won the sponsorship of Jack Dorsey, kindred advocate and official of Twitter; Randi Zuckerberg, head of business division headway for Facebook and sister of Facebook prime supporter Mark Zuckerberg; Alexis Maybank, prime supporter of Gilt Groupe; and Chris Hughes, kindred promoter of Facebook. Saujani outraised Maloney by practically a 2-to-1 edge in the last quarter of 2009, when Maloney had quit gathering promises taking after the death of her life partner, Clifton Maloney, who in September had kicked the container all of a sudden on a mountain-climbing undertaking in the Himalayas. Saujani's assignment got the sponsorship of unmistakable Upper East Side political fundraisers, including Cathy Lasry, Maureen White, and White's significant other, specialist Steven Rattner.

A review approved in the spring of 2010 by the Maloney campaign exhibited Saujani trailing Maloney by more than 68 centers. The same study found Maloney to hold a decent assessing of 86%. Saujani's fight sent a flyer to voters involving Maloney as one of eight House people investigated for taking blessings from special interests,[28] which was not the circumstance. Maloney won the key by tolerating 81% of the vote to Saujani's 19%, winning the Manhattan, Queens, and Roosevelt Island sections of the district regardless of what you look like at it by authoritative edges. Saujani got 6,231 votes, disregarding her campaign's utilization of $1.3 million, spending more than $213 for every vote she got.

Saujani's campaign was the essential political fight to use development gadgets, for instance, Square,[31] NationBuilder, and Fast Society.

2013 Public Advocate choice 

Saujani continued running for the piece of New York Public Advocate in 2013, coming third in the Democratic fundamental.

In January 2013, Saujani's Wikipedia page was enthusiastically modified to empty insights of Saujani working for Wall Street firms, for instance, theoretical stock ventures. Her campaign admitted to this, fighting they did it since they couldn't resist negating the communicated truths.

Singular life

Saujani is hitched to representative Nihal Mehta, who is a kindred sponsor of promotion tech startup LocalResponse. Saujani is a practicing Hindu. The two have a kid named Shaan who was considered in February 2015.