Sheba Najmi has two decades of experience creating user experiences, most recently as the Director/Head of UX at FreeWill, and prior to that as Senior Manager of Product Design at LinkedIn. In addition, Sheba is Founder & Executive Director of Code for Pakistan, a non-profit that’s driving community engagement, government openness, and human-centered creation of digital public services. Prior to founding Code for Pakistan, Sheba was a Code for America Fellow in 2012, where she led the community-driven creation of Honolulu Answers, an award-winning open source web product that has since been re-deployed in over a dozen cities around the world. Among other roles in UX & Product, Sheba was a UX Design Lead at Yahoo! for over 6 years in the early 2000s. Sheba has led trainings & shared her passion for human-centered solutions by speaking at dozens of international conferences, including at the Ukrainian Parliament. Sheba has MS and BS degrees in Symbolic Systems from Stanford University.
