In this episode Felicia Guerrero Green shares her story of entering into the field of engineering, becoming a mom, and how balancing the two came to be nearly overwhelming. Through a chance encounter at a conference, Felicia met a peer who shared the same struggles. They ended up forming an online forum for Engineering Working Moms. The forum now has thousands of followers and provides a space for women engineers to share, vent, and laugh about the challenges related to balancing these two demanding roles.

In Part II of our interview,  Felicia shares how she has taken her passion for problem solving and embarked on a journey through her PhD program to identify what keeps women in engineering. Sharing the startling statistic that women are 300% more likely to leave engineering after having a second child, this challenge isn't just something that impacted Felicia but impacts our STEM fields as a whole.