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 the president of GFA’s charter and board member currently leading volunteering efforts across Fairfield County. Having worked with the FPA since its inception, he has run classes in schools and libraries across the country. A passionate math
Sankalp Ojha
Sankalp Ojha is the co-COO of the FPA. He also serves as the treasurer for the FPA’s committee. He is from St. Luke’s School. He is the founder and chair of the St. Luke’s charter. He decided to join the
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.
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.
Nina Lomigora
Nina Lomigora is the co-head of Charter Outreach for FPA. She is working alongside Lachlan McCracken to partner FPA with community organizations to give students an opportunity to learn to code that they would not have otherwise.
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
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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
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.