Jayathirtha was awarded her Ph.D. in Learning Sciences, concentrating on K-12 computing education, from the University of Pennsylvania in April 2022. She earned her Master's degree in Learning Sciences and Technologies from the University of Pennsylvania and her undergraduate degree in Computer Science Engineering from Bangalore University in India.

What is your previous academic and professional experience?

I was a K-12 math teacher and teacher workshop facilitator in Bangalore, India, for six years before starting my graduate studies in the U.S. I started my post-doctoral career as a Computing Innovation Fellow at the University of Oregon, where I worked with high school computing teachers to think about and redesign a justice-oriented computing program.