In this episode, we meet Amy Quispe, digital services expert and SCS graduate! We learn about Amy’s ceaseless drive to make the world better as a computer scientist, starting at CMU. Whether by expanding the Pausch Bridge into Purnell, running for Undergraduate Senate, or creating CMU’s groundbreaking (and constantly evolving) Scotty Labs, Amy is all about people-focused engineering. Tune into this episode to follow Amy’s journey from Pittsburgh to Silicon Valley to New York (and, briefly, Buckingham Palace!)

In this episode, we meet Alex DiClaudio who, with a Bachelor’s degree in Economics and a Master of Arts Management, has served as a film, television and theater producer, the president and CEO of a tech start-up, and the former President of the Carnegie Mellon Alumni Association. This former President of Scotch’n’Soda Theatre also produces the popular web series Pittsburgh Dad. Listen as Alex talks about the importance of saying yes (without being afraid of the word “no”), being a geek with a sense of optimistic adventurism, and the classic CMU trope of being passionate about many things at once.

This episode features BXA graduate Joanna Lovering, an entrepreneur and the CEO of Copper + Rise. Joanna opens up about stumbling through that first job, and then creating a career from her passions that allows her to be in charge of herself, while uplifting other women in corporate America as an executive presence coach. Listeners will also relate to Joanna’s stories, whether about being a loud, confident Italian woman, Playfair at O-Week, or being deep within your feelings to the sound of John Mayer.

In this episode, we talk to  Leslie Robertson, Vice President of Software Development at Oracle.

Emily Kennedy is the President and founder of Marinus Analytics, a social impact company that uses artificial intelligence to fight human trafficking.

Jeremy Toeman is the Chief Product Officer in the Warner Media Innovation Lab. 

Sammie Walker Herrera is a Career Coach at the University of Florida.

Shauna Grovell is the founder of the Customer Experience Unleashed, a consulting firm focused on solving difficult business challenges and guiding clients towards creating a more inclusive and diverse environment.

Nate Durika is a longtime military intelligence officer with the US Navy.

Elyssa Maxx Goodman is a New York-based writer and photographer specializing in non-fiction writing and documentary photography.