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Hello, The following event may be of interest to you: Sustainable Business Fridays: Learn, Code, Inspire, Teach Friday, February 3, 2017 Fereshteh Forough is the Founder and President of Code to Inspire, the first coding school for girls in Afghanistan. Fereshteh was born as an Afghan refugee in Iran. One year after the fall of Taliban, she moved to Herat, Afghanistan with her family where she received her bachelor’s degree in computer science from Herat University and later a Master’s degree from Technical University of Berlin in Germany. She taught as a professor in the Computer Science Faculty of Herat University for three years. Fereshteh was a 2013 TED Talks speaker and a 2015 Clinton Global Initiative.SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS FRIDAYS:Sustainable Business Fridays (SBF) is the first podcast of its kind bringing together students in Bard College’s MBA in Sustainability Program with leaders in business, sustainability and social entrepreneurship. Twice monthly, these conversations go live via iTunes and Googleplay. Past SBF featured guests have included top sustainability leaders from Unilever, HSBC, GM, Campbell’s Soup, PepsiCo, Green Mountain Energy and many more. BARD MBA in SUSTAINABILITY:The Bard MBA in Sustainability is one of a select few graduate programs globally that fully integrates sustainability into a core business curriculum. In the Bard MBA every class is organized around one critical question: How can we build or transform our businesses so that they are in business to solve the pressing social and environmental problems of our time? Graduates of the Bard MBA are transforming existing companies, starting their own, and pioneering a new paradigm of doing business that meets human needs, protects and restores the Earth's systems, and treats all stakeholders with justice and respect. To learn more, visit www.bard.edu/mba. Time: 7:00 am – 7:00 am EST/GMT-5 Location: Podcast Sponsor: Bard MBA in Sustainability Contact: Katie Ellman. E-mail: [email protected] Website: http://https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/bard-mba-sustainable-business/id1160841177 If you would like to see more events please visit the following URL: http://www.bard.edu/bos/