Ornell Caesar
Our first Excellence In Residence fellowship was given in 2019 to Ornell Caesar, a software engineer in New York City who taught himself JavaScript programming while serving 8 years in prison for a crime to which he pleaded innocent.
The generosity of the Forge team at Autodesk enabled WeXL to produce an event showcasing Caesar’s thought-leadership at DeveloperWeek San Francisco. Our program matched Caesar with mentors at Autodesk, Google, Quora, Nag, Inc., and TripActions. We also provided Caesar with travel and accommodations to California. During his trip, Caesar was a guest on the episode, “REPRESENT: Post-Prison Posterity,” where he joined now California State Senator, Josh Becker, to discuss prison reform and recidivism.
Caesar is now a full-time software engineer at RippleMatch. Before hiring Caesar, RippleMatch’s head of engineering watched Caesar’s presentation, “Visual Storytelling on Prison Reform with D3 JavaScript Libraries,” available on the WeXL YouTube channel.
As Guest on REPRESENT: Post-prison Prosperity
REPRESENT episode featuring guest Ornell Caesar and now California State Senator Josh Becker, discussing Prison Reform and Recidivism
As 2019 EIR Fellow Presenting “Data Visualization Using D3 JavaScript Libraries”
2019 EIR recipient Ornell Caesar presenting “Visual Storytelling on Prison Reform with D3 JavaScript Libraries” during DeveloperWeek San Francisco at the Google Community Space