Rebecca: I can’t wait to hear more, but to start, could you take us back to what you were doing before Founders and Coders?ĭan: Well, I’ve been in web publishing for over twenty years. Students from the summer 2017 cohort work on a team projct Inclusion is one of our core values at Founders and Coders. For the last two years, over half (57%) of our students have been women.ĭan: Absolutely. I’m looking around and I see something surprising for a tech workspace: more women than men.ĭan: That’s right. Rebecca: In that case, let’s talk about what’s going on in here. Rebecca: Dan, there’s a lot of energy in here! Should we move somewhere calmer?ĭan: And leave my favorite place in all of London? No way! Students from FAC14, the fourteenth cohort since Founders and Coders began four years ago, are preparing to host clients for a workshop as part of our Tech for Better programme, with the support of mentors from the previous cohort, and their course facilitator, who is a part of InFact, a cooperative based in the coworking space next to the classroom. I recently sat down with Dan at Space4 in Finsbury Park, the home of Founders and Coders CIC, to chat a bit about the early history of Founders and Coders and where the organisation is going next. Since that first meeting, we’ve started two new Founders and Coders programmes together, in Nazareth with the support of the British government and in Gaza, in partnership with Mercy Corps. That meeting was, as Humphrey Bogart said in Casablanca, “the beginning of a beautiful friendship.” He’d flown to meet me after my husband, Tony, who’d been living in Jerusalem, read about London-based Founders and Coders and wrote to Dan to see if he’d be interested in running a similar peer-led training programme with the Palestinian community. I first met Dan in August 2016 at the arrivals terminal of Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv. Dan Sofer, founder and director of Founders and Coders CIC
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