Lead a chapter

Inspire girls and women to get into technology — in your city. Start a new Coding Girls community or join an existing chapter's leadership team.

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+5000
Members
+150
Events yearly
+75
Local partners
60+
Cities

What you get

Playbook & guides

Session formats, event templates and a launch checklist — see the Coding Girls session & event types guide.

Global brand & reach

Your chapter gets its own site on its own subdomain, listed across the network.

A leaders’ network

Direct line to chapter leaders worldwide and the Coding Girls core team.

Recognition

Founding Leader recognition, speaker opportunities and visibility in the community.

What we expect

  • Volunteer role — plan for 2–4 hours per week
  • Host at least one event per quarter
  • Build a small team — we ask for a co-lead before a chapter goes fully active
  • Uphold our values and code of conduct — chapters carry the Coding Girls name

Curious what leading looks like in practice? Read the story of our community leader Alenna Dawn in the Philippines and browse the session & event types guide.

How it works

  1. Apply Tell us about you, your city and what you’d do in your first 90 days. Takes ~10 minutes.
  2. Intro call We reach out within a week for a short call to align on expectations and answer questions.
  3. Onboard You get the playbook, the leaders’ Slack channels and your chapter page on its own subdomain.
  4. Launch Announce the chapter and host your first meetup — we help promote it across the network.

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