Stories by Lisa Einstein

Lisa Einstein was a Peace Corps volunteer in Guinea from 2016 to 2018. Her career since returning from the Peace Corps has focused on expanding access to impactful digital tools and mitigating harms from emerging technologies.

Computing

How We Got More Than 10,000 Students from 120 Countries to Embrace the Joy of Coding

Stanford is offering its popular computer science intro course for free—and you can help teach it

March 14, 2021 — Chris Piech, Mehran Sahami, Julie Zelenski and Lisa Einstein | Opinion

Policy

Why AI Needs to Be Able to Understand All the World’s Languages

The benefits of mobile technology are not accessible to most of the world’s 700 million illiterate people

February 1, 2021 — Moussa Doumbouya, Lisa Einstein and Chris Piech | Opinion

Policy

If We’re Not Careful, Tech Could Hurt the Fight against COVID-19

Here are four questions we need to ask ourselves

May 18, 2020 — Ria Kalluri, Lauren Gillespie, Agata Foryciarz, Wren Elhai, Sanjana Srivastava, Argyri Panezi and Lisa Einstein | Opinion

Policy

Help Profs Teach Stanford’s Popular, and Now Free, Online Intro to Coding Course

I signed up to be a volunteer section leader. You can, too! But do it ASAP

March 31, 2020 — Lisa Einstein | Opinion

A Vision of AI for Joyful Education

Here’s how we can avert the dangers and maximize the benefits of this powerful but still emerging technology

February 26, 2020 — Chris Piech and Lisa Einstein

Policy

Dear Dad

A message of gratitude for Father's Day

June 17, 2018 — Lisa Einstein

Policy

Unleashing the Energy Trapped within Undereducated Girls

The energy within undereducated girls must be unleashed

May 9, 2018 — Lisa Einstein

Space & Physics

Physics Inferno

A poem describes what could happen to those who don’t follow the metaphorical equivalents of nature's most basic laws

April 4, 2018 — Lisa Einstein

Behavior

The Day My School Was Attacked--with Rocks

As a teacher, I can promise you the outcome would have been very different if the assailants had been carrying firearms

March 2, 2018 — Lisa Einstein

Space & Physics

What Would You Ask an Astronaut on the Space Station?

Here’s what 20 students in a remote west African village, ages 10 to 17, came up with

December 26, 2017 — Lisa Einstein

Mass–Energy Equivalence and the Power of Girls

In recognition of the International Day of the Girl, a new take on E=mc 2 ...

October 11, 2017 — Lisa Einstein

Policy

Defending Girls' Right to Learn Is Why I Joined the Peace Corps

A volunteer explains—with poetry—why teaching physics to girls in Guinea, west Africa is so important to her

August 14, 2017 — Lisa Einstein

Space & Physics

A Letter to My High School Physics Teacher

On his retirement after 37 years of masterful teaching

June 5, 2017 — Lisa Einstein

EARTH

Consider That Pale Blue Dot [Video]

A rap video for Earth Day

April 22, 2017 — Lisa Einstein

Girls Can't Do Math or Science?

A music video celebrating the International Day of the Girl destroys that tired old stereotype

October 11, 2016 — Lisa Einstein