Megan Smith
Megan Smith
Megan J. Smith is the Chief Technology Officer of the United States. She was previously a vice president of Google at Google, was vice president of business development at Google for nine years, and was general manager of Google.org and the former CEO of Planet Out. She serves on the boards of MIT and Vital Voices, is a member of the USAID Advisory Committee on Voluntary Aid and co-founded the Malala Fund. On September 4, 2014, she was named as...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPublic Servant
CountryUnited States of America
classrooms flipping learning people spaces
Flipping our classrooms into active learning spaces really is important and having these convenient spaces where people feel comfortable.
captures kid
Each kid is unique in what captures their attention and their passion.
pregnant seen
I've seen her, and she didn't look pregnant at all.
ibm
In the early IBM team, that was a racially diverse team, a gender-diverse team.
federal government
I actually think that working in the federal government, or state or local, is one of the most significant things that a technical person can do.
mit
I'm on the MIT board, and a lot of our buildings now have daycare centers; it's becoming a standard.
easier hear
It's easier not to hear it from Mom.
amazon future government level needs run
You've got Americans who are making Amazon and Facebook and Twitter. That level of American needs to run future government.
incredibly preserve
It's an incredibly important thing to make sure we preserve net neutrality.
impact lives love people reduce technology
I love to use technology to help people have better lives and to reduce our impact on the planet.
active believed learning mandatory money school science teachers
I went to an inner-city school in Buffalo. We had no money. But our teachers believed in hands-on active learning - there was a mandatory science fair, which was critical.
second time
Second graders learn to read: that's a perfect time to make them code.
work
I like to work at the beginning of projects. Once they get stable, I'll hand them off.
high mandatory school science
I was lucky that science fair was mandatory at my high school in inner-city Buffalo.