“Be the mentor that you never got”

“When I went to OIT, there were people just like me. So it wasn't strange, but it was very strange at that time to be female and be high tech. So I found a there was a place where there were a lot of women just like me that thought very differently and were very pragmatic and matter of fact, it was a great space.”

“"The lab work I did at Oregon Tech—especially building an operating system from scratch—became the centerpiece of every job interview I had for years. It gave me the technical depth and confidence to stand out."”