Today’s Tech Role Model is Nicole Locklair. Today, Nicole is the Talent Acquisition Lead, Design, at LearnVest, a fintech startup that was acquired by the Fortune 100 financial firm Northwestern Mutual. Nicole began her career as a project manager who coordinated teams of creatives. Through her own first-hand experience, she learned the skills and traits that made a great designer. This knowledge helped her pivot into recruiting and work her way up to management roles.

Today’s Tech Role Model is Marnie Hogue. In college, Marnie majored in math and began her career analyzing data for both academic and non-profit institutions. She worked her way up to a Director of Research position but wanted to make a change. By building her programming skills, she navigated the transition and landed a data role in the tech world. Marnie is currently a data analyst for Plated, an ingredient and recipe meal kit service.

Today’s Tech Role Model is Oran Bambrick. Today, Oran helps Irish companies move into new markets as SVP of Digital Technologies at Enterprise Ireland. In college, Oran studied social policy and film production. He spent a few years working on short films before moving into sales and marketing for an advertising agency. As he worked his way through the ranks, he fell in love with business development operations: the processes that help grow and scale a business.

Today’s Tech Role Model is Alyssa Edelman. Today, she’s a Customer Success Manager at Greenhouse, a SAAS organization that helps companies manage their recruiting processes. Throughout her career, Alyssa’s thrived in roles that let her help others and build relationships. Alyssa draws on her psychology background and her years of experience in customer service.

Today’s Tech Role Model is Kate Maxwell. Currently, Kate is a Business Lead at Strava, a mobile and web app connecting millions of runners and cyclists through the sports they love. Kate studied marketing and built a solid AdOps career in New York City. After several years in the industry, she felt like something was missing but wasn’t immediately sure of her next step. Through deep introspection, the power of networks, and her own persistence, she made a big move.

Today’s Tech Role Model is Karen Baker. Today, Karen is the Senior Community Manager of Alumni at Udacity, a San Francisco-based education company offering open online courses. Karen studied Rhetoric and Chinese in college conducted branding research with Millenials, and later transitioned into managing tech communities. She’s also a proud alumna of Seth Godin’s altMBA program.

Today’s Tech Role Model is Sam Provenza. Sam began her career in graphic design, but today she builds intuitive and beautiful user interfaces for digital products. She’s currently a Product Designer for Tailwind, a SaaS start-up producing Pinterest and Instagram marketing tools. In spite of her busy schedule, she is also the NYC chapter lead of Girl Develop It, a group that organizes coding classes and career workshops for women.

Today’s Tech Role Model is Erin Morrissey. Erin began her digital design career at a small tech startup before transitioning to Criteo, a global ad-tech firm. Over the past three years, she’s climbed the ranks to her current role of Advanced Digital Designer. Work keeps her busy, but she still finds time for personal art projects in her free time.

Today’s Tech Role Model is Meka Seymour. Currently, she’s a full-fledged software engineer at Harry’s, a startup that makes and sells shaving equipment. Meka started working on their Customer Experience team. As she interacted with more engineers, she realized she wanted to move into software engineering. Instead of quitting her job, Meka took a different approach and shared her vision with her manager. With her manager’s support, she enrolled in online courses and studied in her free time to build her skills.