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About Esther ‘ WOJ’ Wojcicki
Esther has been intimately involved with Google and GoogleEdu since its inception, where she was one of the leaders in setting up the Google Teacher Academy and remains a guiding force. She is the mother of Susan Wojcicki, CEO of YouTube, Anne Wojcicki, CEO of 23andMe, and Janet Wojcicki, Professor of Pediatrics at UCSF Medical School. Her Husband Stan Wojcicki headed the Physics department at Stanford University.
She regularly presents on her work and methods to global leaders, audiences of educators, policy makers and business leaders. Dr. Wojcicki is the recipient of a number of teaching awards and sits on the Board of leading educational organizations, including PBS Learning Forum and Creative Commons.
With two Honorary Doctorate Degrees – Palo Alto University (2013) and Rhode Island School of Design (2016). She was California Teacher of the Year in 2002 by the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing; a recipient of the Gold Key by Columbia Scholastic Press Association in recognition of her outstanding devotion to the cause of the school press; a board member of Alliance for Excellent Education in Washington, DC, and on the Board of Newseum in DC; and a has been consultant for the Hewlett Foundation, Carnegie Foundation for Advancement of Teaching, Google, Silicon Valley Education Foundation and Time Magazine Education. She serves an advisor for ed tech companies, non-profits, foundations, and the U.S. Department of Education.
About Amit Hooda
Amit is cofounder and CEO of WOJ IT Amit has spent his life creating conscious businesses in tech, CPG and real estate. Amit’s father, renowned agronomist Dr. I.S. Hooda, pioneered regenerative ways to grow food that have helped over 25000 farmers across the globe mainly in Africa, Asia and South America. Amit founded Heavenly Organics to promote regenerative agriculture and provide economic opportunities for families in conflict-torn regions.
Secteur 6 is their newest platform for healing and change. The goal is simple: to create cutting edge fashion while implementing progressive, regenerative solutions that heal the earth and uplift workers. Working with design teams in New York and Paris, the Hoodas are bringing intelligent, and fresh design to radically conscious clothing, helping to transform a massive industry in a moment of global reckoning.
About Our Founders
WOJ International was founded in Silicon Valley by the award-winning educator Esther Wojcicki and conscious entrepreneur Amit Hooda.
SCET Forms Partnership with WOJ to Create a New Path for Tech Entrepreneurship for Students Around the World
The Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology (SCET) at the University of California, Berkeley is excited to announce a new partnership with WOJ, creator of an innovative tech education framework developed by the award-winning educator Esther Wojcicki and conscious entrepreneur Amit Hooda. The partnership will help SCET to advance its pioneering innovation curriculum by incorporating learning from the WOJ Global Moonshots pedagogy and enable WOJ students and scholars to gain access to Berkeley’s leading entrepreneurship ecosystem. The combined efforts will allow students from fifteen countries around the world to experience an unparalleled entrepreneurship education and lift up their local communities.
“We are thrilled to welcome WOJ students to SCET, and to partner with WOJ to build skilled workforces and innovation centers around the world that respond to the needs of today’s companies while also addressing urgent social problems,” says Professor Ikhlaq Sidhu, founder and director of SCET.
Together, the WOJ and Berkeley SCET partnership will offer a globally-recognized program for young innovators that will prepare them for top jobs in tech, building on WOJ’s existing efforts to upskill local workforces and build hubs of innovation — local Silicon Valleys — in fifteen countries including India, Jamaica, Indonesia, Vietnam, the UAE, and Mexico. SCET will bring its award-winning Berkeley Method of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Engineering curriculums to work together with WOJ’s Global Moonshots pedagogy to deliver a one-of-a-kind innovation education to students in the program. Additionally, academics and researchers from WOJ countries will participate in a bidirectional visitation and information exchange with Berkeley scholars, allowing them to collaborate on topics related to AI, data, 5G, and other areas of mutual interest.
“It is exciting and humbling to partner with UC Berkeley SCET, a first-class center for learning innovation at my alma mater to empower students worldwide to improve their lives and the lives of their families by learning TRICK skills and tech skills so they can improve their lives and the lives of people in their communities and worldwide,” says Esther Wojcicki, Global Educator affectionately known as “WOJ” to her many students and admirers.