Iris Nevins used to be a teacher. But now she's a developer getting her start. Join us as we listen to her story about navigating career changes into tech.
After leading development initiatives with a social justice organization that Iris co-founded, she decided to pursue the skills necessary to write specialized software that solves the unique problems that social justice organizations face.
She had been working as an 8th grade U.S. history teacher while running a social justice organization. But after devoting her free time to teaching herself software development, she moved to the Bay Area to pursue a career as a developer.
She is a driven non-traditional candidate with a passion for mission driven software engineering that solves meaningful problems.
Checkout her story at https://medium.com/@cosmosiris/why-i-left-teaching-to-become-a-software-engineer-67464c0f1098
