Ruthe Farmer is a talent entrepreneur laser-focused on diversity and inclusion in tech. She is the founder and CEO of the Last Mile Education Fund, previously served as chief evangelist at CSforAll, was the senior policy advisor for tech inclusion in the Obama White House, and chief strategy & growth officer at the National Center for Women & IT.

Her work has been integral to the design, launch and scaling of multiple national initiatives, including the NCWIT K-12 Alliance, Aspirations in Computing, TECHNOLOchicas, AspireIT, CSEdWeek, Girl Scouts' tech badges and programs, the CSforALL Summit, CSforED, and JROTC-CS.

She served as 2012 Chair of CSEDWeek, was named a 2013 White House Champion of Change for Technology Inclusion, received the 2014 Anita Borg Institute Award for Social Impact, and the inaugural UK Alumni Award for Social Impact in 2015, is a recipient of the inaugural Anthem Awards for DEI in 2021, and a finalist for the 2022 Dot.Org Impact Awards. She holds a BA from Lewis & Clark College and an MBA from Oxford.