About me
Olatunde Sobomehin is the CEO and co-founder of StreetCode Academy, a Silicon Valley-based non-profit that offers free tech classes to communities of color. It serves over 3,000 students annually with over 50,000 hours of free instruction to date. As a student at Stanford, Olatunde led a public speaking class in the Engineering department and played on the top 25 Men's Basketball Team, where he was voted Most Inspirational Player (2003). After graduating, he continued as an entrepreneur and an educator to teach classes at the Stanford Haas Center and the d.school, where he also co-authored the book, Creative Hustle, with sam seidel. His body of work has earned him recognition as a 2018 Aspen Institute Scholar, a 2019 Praxis Fellow, and a 2020 Social Entrepreneurship Fellow at Stanford University. He and his wife, Tamara, reside in East Palo Alto, CA with their four children: Olatayo, Temilola, Tatiola, and Olataiye.
