“It's a very inspiring moment to know that a simple interaction with someone who looks like you could have so much impact."⁠ (Forbes)

Dream Big! That is what Bea Alejandra Mendez Gandica wants to empower girls and women to do when it comes to #STEM!⁠ Bea is a manager on the security team at @Microsoft and also founder of Nuevo Foundation, a non-profit that works with communities of kids of color who maybe hadn’t been exposed to STEM as a career option before to show them the opportunities available to them.