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# How CS Kickstart Began

## About Our Co-Founders

### Floraine Berthouzoz

Floraine was a research scientist in the Creative Technologies Lab at Adobe Systems; her research focused on computer graphics and HCI. Her work was aimed towards building tools that made it faster and easier for people to create and visualize high quality media content. Besides her work, she loved to travel—never getting tired of visiting new places, learning new languages, and understanding different cultures.

### Colleen Lewis

Colleen is an assistant CS professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She specializes in computer science education and curriculum development. Lewis also researched gender and diversity issues in CS education and how the programming environment shapes perception, learning and goals. Lewis teaches computer science courses as well as a seminar course on computer science education.

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