In this week's episode, we shine a light on How to Be a Great Mentor with Marge Ang, an accomplished senior technology marketing professional with over 20 years of experience working with Fortune 500 companies and startups in B2B SaaS, consumer tech, and healthcare. She is also a career management and leadership development coach, focused on helping clients build and sustain rewarding careers, or successfully pivot and adapt to a changing business environment. 

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In this week's episode, we shine a light on Student Mental Health with Mike Deng, a junior pursuing interaction design at ArtCenter College of Design. He is an active mental health advocate on LinkedIn, YouTube, and other media outlets. Beyond that he actively engages in creating communities at large and in creating inclusive communities. Within recent, he's been helping build out UX Growth, an inclusive design community for college students, new grads, and more.

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In this week's episode, we shine a light on Finding Your Inner-Creativity with Lindsay Zhou, a junior at UNC-Chapel Hill, double majoring in computer science and linguistics with a minor in Japanese. She is also an incoming SWE Intern at Tableau. Since starting her own tech journey, she's been passionate not only about building technology that drives positive change, but also about uplifting others as they explore the world of tech. Outside of tech, she loves writing, and she's currently working on a fantasy novel. 

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In this week's episode, we shine a light on Managing Your Career with Jennifer Braganza, Vice President of intelligent Business Process Management (iBPM) at Pontoon Solutions, a subsidiary of The Adecco Group. She is an executive who leads process engineering teams to help organizations continuously improve and deliver for their clients, their shareholders, and their communities. Jennifer was recognized by The Charlotte Business Journal as one of their 40 under 40 in 2018.

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In this week's episode, we shine a light on The Power in Exploring Passions with Sharif Abbasi, a student at Cornell University as well as an incoming M&A/GTM Strategy Intern at VMware. He is also a Co-Founder and Head of Business Development for Cumulus. Abbasi and the Cumulus team are creating a platform hoping to provide underrepresented minority students with educational exploration, collegiate and professional mentorship, and a sense of community and belonging in the world of tech.

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In this week's episode, we shine a light on Building Authentic Relationships with Marcela Niemeyer, a Global Human Resources Executive with more than 16 years’ experience in people management for multinational companies. She has worked in the financial, automotive, chemical, and educational sectors, and is currently serving as the Executive Director of Global Human Resources at Laureate Education, an American, publicly-listed multinational in the higher education sector. Marcela holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology, a master’s degree in business administration, and is a certified Global Human Resources Professional (GPHR-HRCI).

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In this week's episode, we shine a light on Public Speaking for STEM Students with Chinmayi Balusu, a sophomore pursuing neuroscience and medical humanities at Columbia University. She is the Founder and CEO of Simply Neuroscience, a non-profit organization that works to expand interdisciplinary neuroscience and psychology education, outreach, and awareness for over 30,000 students globally. Additionally, she is a youth science communicator and public speaker who enjoys hosting outreach workshops and talks for youth audiences.

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In this week's episode, we shine a light on How to Leverage Your "Student Card" with Sumukh Setty. He currently works as the Chief of Staff at Bennu, a pre-seed startup helping engineering teams perform and communicate more effectively. He also runs Common Room, an AMA series that has had guests like Vivek Sodera, Eric Ries, Kara Goldin, and more. After spending time with Contrary Capital and Rough Draft Ventures in college, he founded and ran Green Line Ventures. He also ran eTower, Babson's entrepreneurship community, launching their external partnerships arm, and organizing Babson's biggest pitch competition ever. Sumukh's passion for startups and venture capital goes back several years, with his first startup in high school being acquired.

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In this week's episode, we shine a light on Sustainable Self-Growth with Harshini Sivakumar, a senior studying Aerospace Engineering at Georgia Tech. Her love for hands-on and challenging projects combined with her constant wonder at the sky and the world above lead her to choose Aerospace Engineering as her career path. She is passionate about empowering women and gender minorities to excel in STEM and aerospace, and hopes to see a day where all young people feel supported and encouraged to pursue their dreams. After graduation this May, she will be joining The Boeing Company as a Spacecraft Operations Engineer. 

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In this week's episode, we shine a light on Staying Self-Aware with Phyllis Njoroge, a product manager at Redfin. She also writes LinkedIn content about impostor syndrome, networking, the job search, and career development as a product manager. 

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