About Us

hackNY's aim is to build a diverse and inclusive tech community to empower the next generation of responsible leaders in NYC.


Board of Directors

Since 2010, hackNY has empowered a community of student-technologists in New York City through the annual hackNY Summer Fellowship program. hackNY is co-organized by hackNY alumNY along with faculty from NYU, and Columbia.

  • is an associate professor of applied mathematics at Columbia University and the Chief Data Scientist at The New York Times. At Columbia he is a founding member of the executive committee of the Data Science Institute, and of the Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics as well as the Department of Systems Biology. Prior to joining the faculty at Columbia he was a Courant Instructor at NYU and earned his PhD at Princeton University in theoretical physics.

  • is a Clinical Associate Professor of Computer Science at NYU where he teaches foundational CS courses. Evan is also involved in the local NYC tech scene as a board member of New York Tech Meetup, VP of the Internet Society of NY, and a member of the investment committee for the NYU Innovation Venture Fund.

  • is a native New Yorker and engineer. She has previously worked at the US Digital Service, Facebook and Google as well as smaller startups and nonprofits. During the summer of 2012, she was a hackNY fellow and Code2040 fellow while interning at tumblr. She has a B.S. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University and is an alum of Stuyvesant High School.

  • is former Executive Director at hackNY. Eric is a business and strategy operations consultant focused on innovation, working with medium and large companies. He has also served as the GM of NYC’s #1 ice cream shop. Eric led Yahoo’s Hack program for years before moving to New York in 2011.

  • is a technologist and leader based in Colorado. She was a hackNY fellow in 2017, interning at Dia&Co, and graduated with a bachelor's degree in math and computer science from Lewis & Clark College. She was an Associate Board co-chair of hackNY 2021-22. Andrea is interested in tech policy, pottery, and in improving tech workplaces' equity and working conditions. She's currently a software manager at Amazon Just Walk Out, where she was previously an engineer.

  • is a South African-American technologist and former hackNY fellow (‘14) currently living in Brooklyn, NY. Sandile, who graduated with a Bachelors of Science in Computer Science & Mathematics from Temple University in 2015, is passionate about education, community organizing, and the craftsmanship of software engineering. Today, Sandile works as a Software Engineer at Google in New York leading a team focused on improving learning outcomes for students who use technology in their classrooms

  • is a creative computer scientist and engineer, and former hackNY fellow (2013) and mentor. After hackNY, she worked at the intersection of technology and social impact for a range of organizations in NYC, from small startups, to a presidential campaign, and a large company (Google). She is currently in academia at the MIT Media Lab. She has math and computer science degrees from Brown University and a Master's degree from MIT. Her recent side hacks include coding generative art for her coloring book about group theory, cryptography projects, and hardware hacks for bikes.

  • is a VP Cloud and Customer Innovation at Caylent and hackNY class of 2011 alumNY. Randall is a technologist and hands-on keyboard coder based in Los Angeles, CA. Previously, Randall led software teams at Facebook, SpaceX, AWS, MongoDB, and NASA. Randall spends most of his time listening to customers, building demos, writing blog posts, and mentoring junior engineers. Python and C++ are his favorite programming languages, but he begrudgingly admits that Javascript rules the world. Outside of work, Randall loves to read science fiction, advise startups, travel, and ski.

Associate Board

  • was a hackNY fellow in the 2018 class. Since his fellowship, he as worked as a software engineer at the New York Times, OOVA, and Maven Learning. He was the Director of Admissions and mentor for hackNY 2019, a volunteer for Mozilla Festival 2022, a mentor for Open Library, and a Wikipedia contributor. His current interests include, cooperatives, social enterprises, open source, privacy, and urbanism. Ray's goal is to make hackNY an inclusive and accessible community by encouraging and improving the documentation for improving and volunteering with hackNY.

  • is a Founding Developer Advocate at Superblocks. He's been working on empowering developer communities for almost a decade. He has a passion for silly IoT projects, good jokes and the staying power to wish you a great day on Twitter every single day.

Legal

hackNY is a registered 501c3. EIN: 27-3758609.
Address: PO BOX 176 NEW YORK NY 10276-0176