Kari Santos

Alumna Kari Santos (MS-ICTD '17) found her passion through Social Impact track

Nov. 29, 2021

Kari Santos holds an MS in Information and Communication Technology for Development (the track was later renamed Social Impact ) from ATLAS Institute's Creative Technology and Design master's program. Before getting her graduate degree, she worked as a software engineer for more than 20 years. In this interview with re:think...

Kari Santos teaches two women to make the peanut roaster.

ICTD alumna teaches micro:bit lessons to students in Botswana

Sept. 4, 2018

Kari Santos, ICTD alumna and member of the Laboratory for Playful Computation, lends a hand as Letang Sefako (left) and Ketletseeng Sedumago (middle) drill holes to add a hinged door to the peanut roaster they built in Kaputura, Botswana in August 2018. The peanut roasting business was one of eight...

Girl holding interactive toy

“Girls on Fire” ignites students’ coding passion

Aug. 8, 2017

At Girls on Fire summer camp, ICTD Graduate Student Kari Santos teaches middle school girls to write code and work with electronics.