Meet Asha Christian

MEET Asha! From Guyana! She is very passionate about using technology to solve the problems that affect underrepresented and underserved communities. In 2015, she co-founded Pinetart Inc., an app development company that specializes in building apps for social good. Asha and her siblings are most well known for creating the internationally acclaimed mobile police rating app, Five-0, which has been featured in Forbes, CNN, Washington Post, Business Insider, Buzzfeed, the Google Developer Conference, and more.
Asha is driven by her belief that one of the best ways to solve global problems is to put technology into the hands of those who are directly affected. In 2016, Asha Co-founded STEMGuyana, a non-profit organization that teaches robotics, scratch programming, and app development to youth across the country of Guyana. STEMGuyana has over 60 locations and has recently been crowned the fastest growing STEM program in the Caribbean.
In 2018, Asha and her team partnered with the Guyanese Ministry of Education and the First Lady of Guyana to develop a mobile app, the National Grade Six Assessment App, that helped grade six students study for their standardized exams. This app was rolled out to the schools in the capital city of Georgetown, Guyana in the Spring of 2018 and resulted in higher math scores across the board in the schools where the NGSA app was used.
Asha has always felt very passionately about making a difference and carving her own path in life and is currently taking a gap year from Cornell University to pursue her latest entrepreneurial endeavor, Coily, a mobile app that plans to organize and revolutionize the black hair care industry.