Matthew Nelson is an educator, artist, and activist who believes in challenging systemic inequities through the radical reimagining of tech education. He is a program manager at an ed-tech organization that teaches web development to incarcerated individuals, and a musician who explores the intersection of hardware and software processes through immersive ambient compositions. Matthew’s introduction to coding came in 2017 when he discovered the live-coding music platform, Sonic Pi. Since that time, he has become passionate about coding as both a professional skill and a creative endeavor.