Ecy Femi King
A Center for Digital Thriving Fellow, Ecy is passionate about education, technology, computer science, the human mind, design, and visual thinking. She's a comic book artist, published author, and programmer working on projects related to "fractal gridding," a novel visual thinking medium her dad invented. She also works as a school data scientist at McGraw Hill.
PZ Work
A current fellow at the Center for Digital Thriving, Ecy is working on a fractal grid comic book, Tech for Togetherness: Pan-African Paradigms for Digital Thriving in Community.
At Stanford University, Ecy studied Human-Centered AI (B.S. Symbolic Systems, 2023) and Human-Computer Interaction (M.S. Computer Science, 2024). While there, she also served as a long-time Computer Science TA, classroom instructor, three-time class president, Stanford Daily writer, and friend.
As an “Afrophile”, she enjoys exploring African knowledge systems and concepts. Combining her interests in humans, technology, psychology, and Pan-Africanism, Tech for Togetherness encourages Gen-Zers to reframe digital thriving through a community and humanity-centered lens. She's also written three Fractal Grid comic books—Bit by Bit (2024), Una Kushε (2024), and Puffy's Party (2025), a collaboration with CS Academy at Carnegie Mellon University.
Fun Facts
Ecy expresses herself in a myriad of ways. She wrote an educational computer-science themed song in Jamaica called “Line by Line” with her fellow JamCoders TAs, sang in an opera/musical, writes creative non-fiction, and does origami. She was born in Scotland, raised in California's Central Valley (Fresno/Clovis), and is Sierra Leonean-American.
Where to Find Ecy
Digitally, you can send a message via email or LinkedIn. Physically, Ecy is in Cambridge (she just moved there!), but as somewhat of a digital nomad, she says, you never really know.
Ecy's PZ Pick
As a classroom instructor, Ecy used the "Think, Pair, Share" thinking routine for students solving coding problems. After sharing it with one JamCoders lecturer, she loved incorporating it into live lecture activities.