Nikki Navta

After 20+ years working on the product development side of educational textbook publishing, in 2009, Nikki founded Zulama, a company that brought computer science education to teenagers through video game design. After a successful exit selling that company to Carnegie Learning, Nikki developed and scaled the sales strategy at Cognitive ToyBox, a game-based early childhood assessment solution. She is currently the Senior Manager of Outreach and Adoption at Code.org, an education innovation nonprofit dedicated to the vision that every student in every school has the opportunity to learn computer science and artificial Intelligence as part of their core K-12 education.