Emma Mulqueeny Explained

Emma Elizabeth Mulqueeny (née Knight; born 12 July 1971) is a British technologist and educator. She is best known for co-founding Rewired State and Young Rewired State, which provided a community and events for technically gifted young people.^{[1] [2] [3] [4]} She has campaigned for programming to be taught from an early age in UK schools to encourage wider uptake and increased diversity in the tech sector.^[5]

Career

Mulqueeny served on the House of Commons' Speaker's Commission on Digital Democracy^[6] and was a 2014 Google Personal Democracy Fellow.^[7] She regularly writes for different media, including The Daily Telegraph.^[8]

Awards and honours

Mulqueeny was voted onto the Wired 100 list, Tech City 100 and BIMA Hot 10. She was voted one of the top ten women in technology by The Guardian and was named in the top ten Tech Heroes for Good by NESTA.^{[4] [9]}

She was appointed as an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2016 Birthday Honours for services to technology and education.

Personal life

Mulqueeny lives in Surrey with her two daughters.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Blog Entries by Emma Mulqueeny. Huffington Post. 2014-08-19. 2012-01-10.
2. Web site: Emma Mulqueeny. Nesta. 2014-08-19. https://web.archive.org/web/20140607004956/http://www.nesta.org.uk/10-tech-heroes-good/emma-mulqueeny. 2014-06-07. dead.
3. Web site: Emma Mulqueeny columns. The Guardian. 2014-08-19.
4. Web site: The Team . Rewired State . 2014-08-19 . 2014 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140816151053/http://rewiredstate.org/team . 2014-08-16.
5. Web site: Mulqueeny . Emma . Year 8 is Too Late . Wordpress . 18 January 2019.
6. Web site: Members of the Digital Democracy Commission . House of Commons . 8 March 2019.
7. Web site: 2014 Google Personal Democracy Fellows . Google . 8 March 2019.
8. News: Learning to code: do I need to be good at maths?. Mulqueeny. Emma. 2012-12-06. 2019-08-20. en-GB. 0307-1235.
9. http://www.parliament.uk/business/commons/the-speaker/speakers-commission-on-digital-democracy/members/emma-mulqueeny/ Emma is the founder of Rewired State and Young Rewired State: Coding a better country.