Computer Science & Finance
I have gone skydiving
Society has to progress, and I have a role in that forward motion. I intend to pursue a career in technology, policy, and economics.
I have always loved building and creating. I remember scavenging through trash with friends, searching for electronics to dismantle and rebuild into toy boats and fans. We would even salvage magnets from speakers to build mini hover devices! My passion solidified when I visited a family friend who crafted robotic toy cars for orphans. Seeing this, I realized that STEM wasn’t limited to middle-aged men in factories, it could address social issues. Growing up in Zimbabwe, I witnessed the impact of corruption, resulting in stark social inequalities. The lack of clean tap water and basic infrastructure in my city signaled troubles. This motivated me to pursue computer science as a means to bring socio-economic improvements to my community.
To gain experience serving my community, I interned at the YMCA through the Bank of America Student Leaders program. During this internship, I got the opportunity to assist students in lower socioeconomic communities who were lagging behind in their reading skills due to Virtual Learning. With three other interns, I created a lesson plan that utilized read-alouds and the CASEL framework to bolster young students’ reading skills, social emotional learning, and multicultural awareness!
This past summer I worked in Seattle as an Explore Intern at Microsoft within the M365 Core team. I got the chance to be both a product manager and software engineer, developing an automation tool from scratch that supports on-call engineers in addressing and mitigating incidences faster and with less toil. This experience not only opened more doors for me within the software engineering realm but also strengthened my interest in this as a potential career.
SPIRE has provided me with a warm community, within an unfamiliar environment. The support we have for one another is indescribable and I have been able to get a stronger network to bolster both my academic, professional, and social endeavors.
