Engineering Director – Sowmya Subramanian

Watch Sowmya Subramanian, Engineering Director at YouTube, share how a favorite part of her job is solving problems for the billions of users and creators on YouTube, and helping them be able to better use the platform. She has also helped develop some cool projects at YouTube such as live… Read More

Foundation CEO – K. Sujata

Watch K. Sujata, President and Chief Executive Officer, Chicago Foundation for Women, share how she combined her strong education and background in engineering with an MBA to build a successful career. In her current job, she uses her problem solving skills, business savvy and persistence to oversee an organization that… Read More

Attorney – Venu Gupta

Watch Venu Gupta, Attorney, and Executive Director of the Chicago Committee on Minorities in Large Law Firms, share how one of the scariest things she has ever done was to muster the courage to leave a lucrative position at a law firm to purse her passion for social justice as… Read More

Gastroenterologist – Lopa Mishra

Watch Dr. Lopa Mishra, M.D., Chair, Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Nutrition Division of Internal Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, and Professor of Gastroenterology, discuss her exciting scientific discoveries. She also shares stories of being born in Kenya and climbing Mt Kilimanjaro as a young girl… Read More

Biostatistician – Tara Maddala

Watch Tara Maddala, Ph.D., biostatistician at Genomic Health, share how her job has been described as being a scientist making new discoveries while swimming in data. She uses her mathematical skills to analyze genomic information to find clues to which treatments will provide the most benefit for each individual patient. Read More

Tech CEO – Sundari Mitra

Watch Sundari Mitra, Founder and CEO, NetSpeed Systems in Silicon Valley share how she combines her education as an engineer with her passion for music and theater to bolster her creativity in developing products for her company. Her company uses math in the form of algorithms to create faster silicon… Read More

Sales Manager – Kavita Snyder

Watch Kavita Snyder, Sales Manager for Synopsys share how her love of solving puzzles led to career in the electronic design automation space where she helps integrated chip designers create new and innovative products for smartphones, computers, automobiles, etc. She graduated high school early and began college at age 14… Read More

Applications Engineer – Deepa Sampathu

Watch Deepa Sampathu, Applications Engineer at Jasper Design Automation, share how an early interest in the way things like cellphones work, led to a masters degree in electrical engineering. In her high tech career, she helps customers use her company’s software verification tools to resolve issues they face while designing… Read More