Welcome Hanne, class of 2014 hackNY Fellow, to hackNY as Program Coordinator!

We are happy to announce that Hanne Paine of the class of 2014 hackNY Fellows has joined hackNY full-time as Program Coordinator!As an active contributor to the hacking community, Hanne is a great fit at hackNY. While an undergraduate majoring in computer science at Stony Brook University, she revitalized her department’s defunct Computing Society as President, increasing its membership 30-fold and organizing weekly Tech Nights featuring talks with startup leaders, tours of NYC tech companies, and a Startup Career Fair. She also introduced her classmates to hackathons, organizing bus trips to hackathons around the US and Canada for students from Stony Brook and the NY area. Hanne is also the director of Unhackathon, an event designed to encourage a greater diversity of hackers, projects, learning and creativity rather than competition. She's also currently serving as a mentor to this year's class of hackNY Fellows.Hanne has previously worked at NASA, Green Map Systems, Google, and Betterpath (as a hackNY Fellow). She has been passionate about tech and education since she started working at a space simulation camp as a middle-school student, where she became a senior volunteer and their first female computer programmer. When not hacking and organizing, Hanne loves thinking about linguistics, astrophysics, reading everything, and being outside. She’s always happy to recommend a good book or talk shop about telescopes, cameras, or high-tech cooking equipment. If you’re lucky, you might get to meet one of the litters of rescue kittens she fosters for the ASPCA.In other alumNY good news, Shy Ruparel has taken on a full-time role with our friends at Major League Hacking. We thank Shy for his contributions to hackNY and are happy that he's continuing hackNY's mission by joining a successful NYC startup.In addition to helping hackNY with the summer Fellows program and fall hackathon, Hanne hopes to work on improving hackNY’s diversity, to create more ways for our Fellows and alumNY to be involved with the tech community, and to reach out to younger aspiring hackers.Welcome, Hanne!