Meet Sasha Ariel Alston, teen author of the children’s book “Sasha Savvy Loves to Code”!
Sasha Ariel Alston is currently an Information Systems Major with a minor in Marketing at Pace University in New York in the Lubin School of Business. With successful information technology and business internships at Microsoft, EverFi, the U.S. Department of Commerce, Many Mentors, and National Academy Foundation behind her, she is a sought-after speaker to encourage youth, especially girls of color, to pursue educational and career opportunities in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math). Sasha was the recipient of the Prize for Achievement Award by Kurt Giessler Foundation, and Imani Awards, a Finalist in the Youth Essay Category of the Larry Neal Writers’ Award presented by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities and was published in the Harvard Educational Review – Youth Voices.