Karima A. Zedan is Vice President, Digital Inclusion + Internet Essentials at Comcast. Zedan joined Comcast in 2012, and leads the company’s signature digital inclusion initiative to connect low-income Americans to the internet at home. Internet Essentials is the largest and most successful internet adoption program in the country. Karima has a B.A. in Communications from the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, and an M.A. in Criminal Justice with a focus on organizational communications and change management, from Temple University, where she has also taught undergraduate courses on race, crime and social justice.
In a 2015 survey, nearly half of students said they were unable to complete a homework assignment due to lack of internet or computer access. Take a look at the interactive map that shows the neighborhoods in Philly where that is most likely to happen.