Aisha Blake

Aisha Blake arrived in Detroit in 2013 to serve as a Jesuit Volunteer at Detroit Cristo Rey High School and quickly became involved with the local Girl Develop It chapter. Within a year, she was invited to join the leadership team for Girl Develop It Detroit. This inevitably led to a deep love of the tech community in Detroit and a desire to put down roots. She has since become the owner of a cat and a house. Aisha is a front-end developer at Detroit Trading and works part-time as a JavaScript instructor at Grand Circus teaching career changers the joys and the struggles of front-end web development.

Aisha fell in love with Detroit and decided to stay and help women and others discover the endless possibilities inherent in working with web applications. She knows enough to be dangerous about: HTML & CSS, JavaScript & jQuery, The MEAN stack, Web accessibility, Responsive web design, Sass, WordPress, Shopify (& various other e-commerce platforms)