Semmy Purewal is an Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina at Asheville. His passion for engaging communities through technology led him to co-found Free IT Athens, an all-volunteer non-profit organization in Athens, GA. Through this and a decade of teaching computer science at the college level, he has discovered some of the best approaches to teaching complex technical topics to non-technical people. Outside of community organizing and teaching, he has extensive experience as a software engineer with a diverse group of clients that include startups, non-profits and research labs.