Paula Golden

Paula earned her B.A. in English and Education from Wellesley College and her J.D. cum laude from New England School of Law, where she served as Assistant Dean and Instructor of Law. While practicing law, she hosted community interest cable programs in Boston and Los Angeles, where she was an Emmy finalist. She has shared her expertise in STEM education in a variety of national forums such as a TEDx and as a blogger for the Huffington Post, The Hill and Medium. As president of the Broadcom Foundation, Paula Golden initiates innovative partnerships with nonprofits and community organizations that share Broadcom Foundation’s commitment to equitable access to STEM education and ensuring digital literacy for girls, under-resourced, and underrepresented youth, so that all young people have the 21st century+ tools they need to compete for highly skilled jobs in emerging industries built on technologies of the future. Her team utilizes media relations and social networking to advocate digital literacy as an essential element for creating a viable global workforce, ensuring sustainability, and improving quality of life for all. Through the Broadcom Foundation, Paula has helped found the National STEM Funders Network and STEM Education Ecosystem Initiative and other foundation-sponsored partnerships that focus on digital literacy, responsible use of AI, such as the Raspberry Pi Foundation and ScienceBuddies.org, Congressional App Challenge and National STEM Festival. Paula’s leadership role in renowned middle-school science fair competitions Broadcom MASTERS® and Broadcom MASTERS® International, from 2010 to 2022 informed Broadcom Foundation’s emerging partnership with Raspberry Pi Foundation to increase Code Clubs in underserved communities and its sponsorship of Coolest Projects Global. Broadcom Foundation’s initiative, Broadcom Coding with Commitment®, inspires young people to “act locally and think globally” by using coding to help solve a community problem they care about that aligns with the 17 Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations.