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Girls Who Code founder says no thanks to Ivanka Trump

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Reshma Saujani said she can't support the "intolerance" the Trump administration's immigration policies promote.

The founder of Girls Who Code said no thanks to Ivanka Trump’s invitation to work with the administration’s STEM education initiative after the president signed a travel ban restricting travel from six primarily Muslim countries.

"I do not believe this initiative — nor any partnership with this White House — can reverse the harm this administration has already done in attempting to legitimize intolerance," Reshma Saujani wrote in a New York Times opinion piece. "Indeed, collaborating with this administration, on any issue, emboldens it only further."

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