Emma Mulqueeny































Emma Mulqueeny

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Mulqueeny speaking at Wikimania 2014 at the Barbican Centre, London

Born
Emma Elizabeth Mulqueeny


(1971-07-12) 12 July 1971 (age 47)[1]

Sidcup, Kent, England
Residence Guildford
Nationality British
Other names hubmum
Known for


  • Young Rewired State


  • Year 8 is too Late[2]
Website mulqueeny.wordpress.com

Emma Elizabeth Mulqueeny OBE (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.[3][1][4][5][6][7] 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.[8]


Emma served on the House of Commons' Speaker's Commission on Digital Democracy[9] and was a 2014 Google Personal Democracy Fellow[10]. She is the daughter of Kenneth G Knight and Sara Nicholls (née McArtney), and lives in Surrey with her two daughters.



Awards and honours


Mulqueeny was included in the 166th annual edition of Who’s Who, and 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.[7][11]


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.[12]



References









  1. ^ ab MULQUEENY, Emma Elizabeth. ukwhoswho.com. Who's Who. 2014 (online edition via Oxford University Press ed.). A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#33aa33;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}
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  2. ^ Year 8 is too late mulqueeny.wordpress.com 2011-08-10


  3. ^ Emma Mulqueeny - Founder of Young Rewired State - The YRS story #yrs2013 on YouTube


  4. ^ "Blog Entries by Emma Mulqueeny". Huffington Post. 2012-01-10. Retrieved 2014-08-19.


  5. ^ "Emma Mulqueeny". Nesta. Retrieved 2014-08-19.


  6. ^ "Emma Mulqueeny columns". The Guardian. Retrieved 2014-08-19.


  7. ^ ab "The Team". Rewired State. 2014. Archived from the original on 2014-08-16. Retrieved 2014-08-19.


  8. ^ Mulqueeny, Emma. "Year 8 is Too Late". Wordpress. Retrieved 18 January 2019.


  9. ^ "Members of the Digital Democracy Commission". House of Commons. Retrieved 8 March 2019.


  10. ^ "2014 Google Personal Democracy Fellows". Google. Retrieved 8 March 2019.


  11. ^ Emma is the founder of Rewired State and Young Rewired State: Coding a better country.


  12. ^ "No. 61608". The London Gazette (Supplement). 11 June 2016. p. B13.




External links



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