SMU alumna Nurul Jihadah Hussain who has a full-time job in the education sector is also a champion of gender diversity in the technology sector as the founder of non-profit organisation, The Codette Project. The initiative, which started in 2015, has organised dozens of classes, workshops and networking sessions for women, as well as the first women-only hackathon in Singapore. She was one of the 100 women in Singapore's technology sector honoured at the Singapore Women in Tech Webinar in September.