Let me tell you a little about myself... I like to watch the discovery channel (house hunters too) and look up cool new gadgets just for fun. I love coding and all things computer, so I am really lucky to have had the opportunity to study Computer Science and Engineering at Lehigh University. The offspring of a yoga-teaching meditation-preaching mother and a by-the-book lawyer father, I am a unique blend of crazy. 

My passion for all things tech-related came about in high school. I was inspired by my math teacher, a previous NASA engineer, to join the FIRST Robotics team. A group of 80 of the schools best analytical thinkers (about 75 of them men), and the petite blonde that knew absolutely nothing... what could go wrong? 

As it turns out, I loved it! I loved being challenged with new, seemingly unsolvable problems every day. I loved discovering new ways of thinking, and discovering myself along the way. And the rest, as they say, is history...

Six years later, that FIRST Robotics team won the world championships, and I received an engineering degree from Lehigh. Along the way, I realized that intimidation I felt stepping into Robotics on that very first day was not unique, especially as a woman. I decided that my experience and perspective could help other women in a similar positions reach their goals as well. I founded an ACM recognized chapter of the Women in Computer Science club at my university to do just that- and by the time I graduated it had over 100 student members and full participation from all female professors in the department. I also started volunteering to teach after school coding programs to 4th and 5th grade girls at local elementary schools in Pennsylvania. Every young girl should be empowered to take risks and feel comfortable opening up to new learning opportunities. 

From my time on a remote Costa Rican village helping to rebuild a community center, to an internship on wall street, to summer in Tel Aviv working at a startup and hitting the beach on lunch breaks- my experience in the tech industry has taken me on some pretty cool adventures. My latest travels have placed me in San Francisco, California working as a Software Engineer at Google.