Stephanie Hughes, a Software Engineer, talks with our host, Raisa Gandi Putri, to walk through her career journey. First, Stephanie explains how her interest in Disneyland morphed beautifully into a passion for coding. She then shines a light on the mentors who encouraged her to go outside of her comfort zone and pursue computer science at a more serious capacity.

She shares how she has blazed an amazing trail for herself while lifting other people up along the way — she captained her robotics club in high school, founded the Association of Computing Machinery Women's Chapter at Oregon State University (OSU), and co-founded a $30,000 scholarship to send her fellow female students at OSU to the Grace Hopper Conference.