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Paola Villarreal

Paola Villarreal is a programmer born in

Mexico City on October 5, 1984.



From the age of twelve she had her first contact with technology when her father bought her a computer to do her homework and then she entered the world of chat rooms and programming communication and at the age of 15 she already started creating web pages

 What did Paola do?

 helped reverse more than 20,000 racially prejudiced drug convictions, developing Data for Justice, an interactive map tool that compares policing in white and minority neighborhoods. In October 2019 she was selected as one of the 100 most influential women in the world during 2019 by the BBC

 facts about Paola Villarreal

In 2015 she was awarded a grant from the Ford and Mozilla Foundation to be part of the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts, an organization dedicated to the protection of civil rights. From June 2017 to December 2018 she was Director of Product Engineering at Creative Commons. 4 Since December 2018 she is the Coordinator of Data Sciences at Conacyt

 Recognition

 the Massachusetts Institute of Technology included it in the list of Innovators under 35 Latin America. This tool allows a narrative and visual analysis of a data set, called ANT Augmented Narrative Toolkit

In 2019, Villarreal was included by the BBC in its list of 100 Most Influential Women of the Year, an edition in which the Mexican actress Yalitza Aparicio was also recognized

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