Samantha is a rising senior and Computer Science major at Wellesley College. Her summer has been spent at Square as a software engineering intern for the invoices team. She's passionate about full stack web development, mentorship, tech culture's impact on those outside its circle, reproductive justice, and coffee. Time she doesn't spend hacking on school work or personal projects is spent at hackathons, ordering Domino's, and making latte art at Starbucks. Find her on most platforms as @mantaleigh.

Rani is currently a student at UC Berkeley studying Computer Science and Business Administration. Raised in the Silicon Valley, Rani has learned to love the Bay Area and the abundance of innovation. As an Enablement Tools Intern, Rani is focused on providing data and research that serves as an asset to business teams. Prior to Square, Rani worked at a tech incubator as well as founded a non-profit in 2014. In her free time, she enjoys running, playing with her dog, and baking. Lastly, she is a firm believer that anything can be achieved with hard work.

Patricia Perozo is a senior at Stanford University Majoring in Computer Science. This summer she is a second year fellow with CODE2040 while interning at Brigade on the API team. She has spent the last two summers interning at Facebook, her first of the two as a CODE2040 fellow. She is passionate about using her tech background to work on issues of social justice and inequality, advocating for diversity in Technology, and Politics.

Kendell Byrd is a rising senior at Swarthmore College studying computer science and economics. This summer she was a software engineer intern at Facebook on their Pages and Crowdsourcing team. Last fall, Kendell studied computer science, design, and entrepreneurship in Budapest, Hungary at the Aquincum Institute of Technology. Additionally, in the past, she has done engineering research in the field of Geographic Information Systems, interned at Jawbone and JP Morgan, and has been a CODE2040 Fellow. Her favorite areas in tech are artificial intelligence and website development.

Megan McCauley is a rising senior studying Electrical and Computer Engineering at Olin College of Engineering in the Boston, MA area. She is currently a technical staff engineering intern at Samsung Research America where she works on Android apps. Megan recently passed down the reins of her Society of Women Engineers presidency and spent last semester studying sustainability in Berlin, Germany. This is her first time speaking in public about mental health stigmas and she couldn't be more excited. Megan loves all things tech and especially those with a warm fuzzy spot for helping women succeed in STEM. When she's not coding, Megan can be found reading books on her Kindle, exploring the Bay area via her longboard, and eating chocolate (although not usually all at the same time). Feel free to reach out via email with any questions or just to talk: meg@students.olin.edu.

Lizzie is a rising junior computer science major, English minor at Bryn Mawr College. She is a developer evangelist intern at PubNub for the summer, making applications, blogging about them, and evangelizing PubNub in general by organizing meetups and attending events. She enjoys attending hackathons, and helped organized Spectra last month.

Shriya Nevatia is President of Assembled, a professional social network for people in technology. Assembled is a small startup based in Palo Alto, and she's been there for nearly a year working on Product Development, UX Design, and Community Management. She spent her free time in the past year teaching UX Design workshops at Bay Area events, organizing social and professional gatherings for young people in technology, and Co-Directing the Spectra all-women's hackathon. Before that, she completed her B.S. in Computer Science at Tufts University in 2015 and founded an organization for young women in technology called The Violet Society in 2013. She is extremely thankful to have found amazing communities including Ladies Storm Hackathons and Dreamers // Doers that helped her feel welcome in the tech industry, and is excited to help others find communities they love, too! Reach out to her at facebook.com/snevatia

Maegan works as a software engineer on UX at YouTube. She is a recent grad from the University of North Carolina where she studied journalism and computer science. She loves working with data and sharing the stories she finds in between the numbers.