Carrie Anne Philbin is an English teacher of computer science and an author. She is a director of educator support[1] at the Raspberry Pi Foundation and chairs the Computing At School (CAS) diversity and inclusion group, #CASInclude. She wrote the computing book Adventures in Raspberry Pi (2013) for teenagers. She runs the YouTube channel Geek Gurl Diaries and in 2017, was the host for Crash Course Computer Science.[2]
Early life and education
Philbin studied history at the University of Essex. She taught herself to program and manage computer systems after she graduated.[3] She trained as a school computing teacher and worked in East London.[3] As of 2025 she is doing a PhD