Sarah Ortiz Shields wants everyone to register to vote. The Executive Director of Austin Tech Alliance is all about voter registration (and pushing for an online process) as well as voter education in Travis County.

We interviewed Sarah on Austinpreneur about civics, the LGBTQ community and how she discovered her purpose— using her skills to build stuff for her community.

The change from LaCroix to nonprofit was big. “One day I had mountains of sparkling water and the next I was paying a quarter every day for my coffee,” she said.