About Us

Code for Hood is in full partnership with several Sacramento community-based agencies.
Due to COVID-19, Code for Hood events have been postponed until Spring 2021. Please check back often for updates.

Meet the Team

The eSteamed Avengers:

Gina Lujan

Co-founder and CEO of Code for Hood, Gina is a Social Entrepreneur. She focuses on community, business, regional, and economic development at Code for Hood. Gina possesses 15 years’ technology experience in web development and is a reprise maker.Gina’s is fabulous and does her best work as Operation Innovates, Inc.
Director of business development and fundraising for all our super cool programs in Northern California. To contact Gina directly, click here.

STEM Superpower: Website Designer & ReMaker
Title: Co-founder and CEO of Code for Hood

Alona Jennings

Co-founder and CLO Operation Innovate, Inc., Alona is a social entrepreneur and advocate for youth. She focuses on community and youth economic and workforce development at Operation Innovate, Inc. Alona possesses over 15 years of experiences in tech, in Technology Education, her experience in technology education for corporate, nonprofit and youth programs include curriculum development, software training, instructional design and IT project management. Alona does her best work for Operation Innovate as program development and management, project management & event logistics and operations for all our super cool programs in Northern California. To contact Alona directly, click here.

STEM Superpower: Instructional Designer and IT Project Manager
Title: Chief Learning Officer and Executive Director

Our Mission

To expose and educate 500+ youth per year who represent the underserved /und underrepresented areas of the Sacramento region, and to provide them the digital and job readiness skills to occupy some of the 1.4 million tech/computing/STEM related job openings expected to be available in the U.S. by 2021, along with empowering these youth to be innovators, entrepreneurs and leaders in their communities, and builders of their own futures. *S.T.E.A.M.E.D. (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math, Entrepreneurship, and Design)

Our Vision

To empower, educate, and immerse underserved /underrepresented youth ages 12 – 24 in all things *S.T.E.A.M.E.D. and careers in STEM. We expose and educate youth to the growing careers in STEM through our three innovative and comprehensive programs Code for Hood eSTEAMED Academy Urban Foundry.