Our Team
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William McGonagle
William McGonagle is a Co-Founder, President, and Board Member of the FPA. Born on September 8th, 2004, he currently resides in Bridgeport, Connecticut near the headquarters of the FPA. After seeing how income disparity contributes to a shortage of education,
Neil Chaudhari
Neil Chaudhari is a Co-Founder, CEO, and Board Member of the FPA. After seeing how income disparity contributes to a shortage of education, he decided that there needed to be more opportunities for learning. He had discussed the problem
Jamie Davis
Jamie Davis is an FPA volunteer and original member who has been working with the Charter program since its inception. He and Tristan Ebrahimi have worked to build the charter program through community building with schools and organizations that share
Aaron Hopper
Aaron Hopper is the Head of International Education who joined to teach students abroad programming. He believes it is very important that those who want to learn to code, but may not have the resources, be given an opportunity to
Lachlan McCracken
Lachlan McCracken is the Head of Charter Outreach for the FPA. She is working to partner the FPA with community organizations that would not otherwise offer coding programs.
Owen Simon
Owen Simon is an FPA volunteer and original member who has helped build and improve the teaching force of the program since day one. Many young future coders were captivated by his distinctly enthusiastic teaching - and their success captivated
Sankalp Ojha
Sankalp Ojha is a FPA member from St. Luke’s School. He is the founder and chair of the St. Luke’s charter. He decided to join the cause after seeing how income disparity contributes to a shortage of education. His mission
Will Drapkin
Will Drapkin is the CFO of the FPA. He is the cofounder and co-chair of the St. Luke’s charter. His mission is to bring coding outreach to underserved communities.
Uri Moon-Rosha
Tristan Ebrahimi
Tristan Ebrahimi is an FPA volunteer closely connected to the Charter program as he has been working on it since its beginning. He and Jamie Davis have worked hard to craft it into the community-driven, colaborative, and supportive program that
Hanzi Li
Hanzi Li is an FPA volunteer who was born on February 17, 2004 and presently resides in Montréal, Québec, Canada.
Prashnta Pandey
Prashnta Pandey is an FPA volunteer currently living in Kathmandu, Nepal. He is currently working as the lead developer behind the FPA Learning Platform, a tool that will help revolutionize access to learning resources.
Alain Prestige
Alain Prestige is an FPA volunteer currently living in Liège, Belgium. He currently is the lead developer on the FPA License List, building out a registry of all the open-source, source-available, and commercial licenses the digital world has.