Heather Payne is the founder of Ladies Learning Code, a Toronto-based not-for-profit startup that runs popular  workshops for women (and men) who want to learn computer programming and  other technical skills in a social and collaborative way. In 2012, she founded HackerYou as  a way to bring more intensive technology learning experiences to Toronto and beyond. Recently she spent a year working on a project for the  Mozilla Foundation: her job was to build a community of people and  organizations in Toronto who care about raising youth as creators – not  just consumers – of technology and the web. In December 2012, the project was granted $365,000 in funding from the Ontario Trillium Foundation. In her spare time, she enjoys building websites and furthering her knowledge of Ruby on Rails.