Dita is a founder and (cheer)leader of Czechitas, an organization educating women and minorities in IT, whose main purpose is to break barriers and stereotypes preventing women from entering these STEM careers. She studied System Engineering at Faculty of Economics and Applied Computed Science at Faculty of Informatics. Before founding her own social enterprise she was working as a data analyst in Ernst n Young, Prague. Her organization has been awarded with Social Impact Award 2015 and won Community Service Award 2017 at SXSW Conference. Dita belongs to NewEurope100 innovators by Financial Times, Google and Visegrad Fund. Apart from Czechitas, she is involved in other initiatives supporting education in IT: board member of 6D Academy and co-founder of Powercoders, coding school for refugees in Bern.
Last edited in April, 2017.