Emma Mulqueeny
Emma Mulqueeny | |
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Mulqueeny speaking at Wikimania 2014 at the Barbican Centre, London | |
| Born | Emma Elizabeth Knight 12 July 1971[1] |
| Known for | Young Rewired State |
| Website | mulqueeny |
Emma Elizabeth Mulqueeny OBE (née Knight; born 12 July 1971) is a British technologist and educator. She is best known for co-founding Rewired State and Young Rewired State, which provided a community and events for technically gifted young people.[2][1][3][4][5][6] She has campaigned for computer programming to be taught from an early age in UK schools to encourage wider uptake and increased diversity in the tech sector.[7]
Career
Mulqueeny served on the House of Commons' Speaker's Commission on Digital Democracy[8] and was a 2014 Google Personal Democracy Fellow.[9] She has written for different media organisations, including The Daily Telegraph[10] and The Guardian.[5]
Awards and honours
Mulqueeny was voted onto the Wired magazine 100 list, Tech City 100 and British Interactive Media Association (BIMA) Hot 10. She was voted one of the top ten women in technology by The Guardian and was named in the top ten Tech Heroes for Good by NESTA.[6][8]
She was appointed as an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2016 Birthday Honours for services to technology and education.[11]
Personal life
Mulqueeny lives in Surrey with her two daughters.
References
- ^ a b Anon (2014). "Mulqueeny, Emma Elizabeth". Who's Who (166th ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 2720. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U258294. ISBN 9781399411837. OCLC 1427336388. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ Emma Mulqueeny - Founder of Young Rewired State - The YRS story #yrs2013 on YouTube
- ^ Mulqueeny, Emma (10 January 2012). "Blog Entries". huffingtonpost.co.uk. Huffington Post. Retrieved 19 August 2014.
- ^ "Emma Mulqueeny". nesta.org.uk. Archived from the original on 7 June 2014. Retrieved 11 November 2025.
- ^ a b Mulqueeny, Emma. "Columns". theguardian.com. The Guardian. Retrieved 19 August 2014.
- ^ a b "The Team". rewiredstate.org. 2014. Archived from the original on 16 August 2014. Retrieved 19 August 2014.
- ^ Mulqueeny, Emma (2011). "Year 8 is Too Late". wordpress.com. Retrieved 18 January 2019.
- ^ a b Anon (2016). "Members of the Digital Democracy Commission". parliament.uk. House of Commons. Archived from the original on 7 June 2016. Retrieved 8 March 2019.
- ^ Strong, Anthea Watson (2014). "Google Personal Democracy Fellows". googleblog.com. Google. Retrieved 8 March 2019.
- ^ Mulqueeny, Emma (6 December 2012). "Learning to code: do I need to be good at maths?". telegraph.co.uk. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 20 August 2019.
- ^ "No. 61608". The London Gazette (Supplement). 11 June 2016. p. B13.