After many years of experience in business, Dr. Julia Freudenberg moved to the management of the multi-award-winning Hacker School with the vision of getting young people, especially girls and socioeconomically disadvantaged young people, excited about programming. As a convinced networker, she works on close-meshed collaborations between voluntary and full-time initiatives in the IT sector, is a member of the advisory board of the Young Digital Economy at the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology, is herself active as a volunteer, and is the happy mother of two children.