Debugged

The official alumni-led podcast of the Congressional App Challenge

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Meet Alefiya Master, An Entrepreneur Changing EdTech For Good

In this episode of Debugged, Medha Gupta chats with Alefiya Master, founder & CEO of award-winning app development program, MAD-learn.  Master shares her incredible journey from being an educator with a vision to an entrepreneur with a mission to enable students to have passion driven career choices.  MAD-learn emphasizes the importance of design thinking and has now impacted over 30,000 students in 30 states and 5 countries.  The pair also discuss the process of creating an ed-tech startup and the importance of building a strong team to make an idea turn into a reality.  Tune into learn how Master is transforming edtech for good and inspiring many as a millennial, woman, minority, and educator turned entrepreneur!


In this episode of Debugged, Medha Gupta chats with Alefiya Master, founder & CEO of award-winning app development program, MAD-learn. Master shares her incredible journey from being an educator with a vision to an entrepreneur with a mission to enable students to have passion driven career choices. MAD-learn emphasizes the importance of design thinking and has now impacted over 30,000 students in 30 states and 5 countries. The pair also discuss the process of creating an ed-tech startup and the importance of building a strong team to make an idea turn into a reality. Tune into learn how Master is transforming edtech for good and inspiring many as a millennial, woman, minority, and educator turned entrepreneur!

Alefiya Master is the Founder & CEO of award-winning app development program, MAD-learn. She believes that enabling students to have passion-driven career choices should be a key focus for schools. It’s not often that you find a millennial, woman, minority, educator turned entrepreneur who has founded and grown 2 EdTech companies that now impact over 30,000 students in 30 states and 5 countries. She knows the critical role of education in workforce development, the need to have ALL kids learn to think & create for themselves, and be exposed to technology creation, not just consumption.