2021 AiC Campus Reps

About the 2021 AiC Campus Reps

Campus Reps are drawn from the Aspirations in Computing (AiC) Community, a network of more than 16,000 technical women from high school to early workforce. Below, you can find information about the 2021 Campus Representatives and learn more about their projects and efforts on campus. To view a directory of the current AiC Campus Representatives, click here.

Alyshia Bustos

Alyshia Bustos is a Ph.D. graduate student at University of New Mexico, Computer Science Department where she works in the Hand and Machine research group with Dr. Leah Buechley. Alyshia is the lead graduate student on the Interactive Mural project for Dr. Leah Buechley and is working on new technology to teach and engage diverse youth in computer science. She is the president of the Women in Computing organization and the Computer Science Graduate Student Association at UNM. She has worked in the technical computer science field for four years as a software developer. Her Bachelor’s and Master’s degree are in Computer Science which she received both from UNM. She has received the Outstanding Junior Award through her department during her undergraduate degree program. Recently, she has been accepted as a finalist for the NCWIT Collegiate Award. When she is not working her favorite hobbies are snowboarding and skydiving.

Genevieve Chin

Genevieve Chin (pronouns she/her) is an undergraduate student at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) studying Computer Science and Community Engagement & Social Change. She is passionate about making technology education accessible in the Los Angeles area and is interested in the overlaps of technology, social impact, ethics, and public policy.She got her start in technology through communities like BUILT BY GIRLS, Kode With Klossy, Girls Who Code, and Major League Hacking. She wants to empower underrepresented groups in technology and ensure that their voices are included in the development of future innovations.

Genevieve was a 2021 NCWIT AiC National Honorable Mention and Los Angeles Affiliate Winner and a member of Major League Hacking’s Top 50 Class of 2021.

Eunsuh (Jasmine) Cho

Eunsuh (Jasmine) Cho was born and raised in Austin, TX. As the youngest daughter of her two loving Korean immigrants, she is currently an undergraduate student at Harvard University, where she is pursuing a Bachelor of Arts in a joint concentration in Computer Science and Art Film Visual Studies on the Studio Arts and Film Track. 

At her school she is currently serving on the Board of Marketing and Design for HackHarvard and a first year analyst at the Harvard Financial Analyst Club on the Quantitative Finance Team. She is also an active member in Woman in Computer Science (WiCS) and Harvard Computer Society. In her free time, she plays doubles on the Harvard Club Competitive Tennis Team and spends her Saturdays whether it be spray-painting at a graffiti park or painting in front of the Charles River with her fellow artist peers from Harvard Studio Art Society.

In her past summers she has interned as a LLRISE Research Analyst for the MIT Lincoln Laboratory where she built a working RADAR scanner to detect motion and used it to map out large landmarks on the MIT campus. As a Kode with Klossy, ChickTech, and NCWIT Campus Representative she is passionate of engaging more women of all ages in the technology industry.

Outside of school, Jasmine loves to travel; visiting local, famous restaurants and coffee shops to doing nature-related outdoor activities, including hiking, skiing and swimming in the ocean, Jasmine enjoys trying new things and breaking out of her own comfort zones. A fun fact about her is that she traveled to every state in the United States, except for Hawaii, Idaho and Oregon.

Sanmati (Sana) Choudhary

Sana is an undergraduate student at Columbia University in New York City. She is planning to major in Computer Science with a minor in Mathematics and Entrepreneurship & Innovation. Sana hopes to contribute to building a diverse and inclusive CS community at her university through multiple clubs and organizations. Currently, she serves as the co-president of the Robogals Columbia Chapter where she organizes after school clubs at nearby NYC schools to teach them a variety of STEM topics. She also is an Executive Committee Member for the Society of Women in Engineers and plans the annual Engineering Exploration Event (EEE) for local high school students. Sana also is a mentor for the Application Development Initiative where she helps her peers out with classes, homework, or any advice they may need. Besides Computer Science, Sana enjoys playing tennis with her younger brother and wishes she could play more at college. She also plays the viola and loves to compose music and learn more about the origins of certain compositions. In her free time, she loves to cook different cuisines with her friends! Sana is very excited to be a Campus Representative this year and continue to bridge the gender gap in STEM

Rachel Daniel

Georgia Tech

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachela-daniel/

Patricia Garcia

Patricia Garcia was born/raised in Miami Florida and is the proud daughter of Cuban/Nicaraguan immigrants. She is currently a first-year graduate student at the University of Southern California (USC) where she pursuing a Master’s in Product Development Engineering as a 2021 GEM Fellow. She is passionate about utilizing a systems-perspective to collaborate across disciplines and designing innovative, human-centered solutions to various 21st century challenges

During summers, Patricia traded a swimsuit for a lab coat and traveled more than a thousand miles to participate in full-time summer research positions. From engineering 3D skeletal muscle tissue at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to developing a piezoelectric sensor to detect pressure changes of the radial artery at the University of California-Berkeley, both experiences helped Patricia hone her skills and further develop a passion for engineering design.

Recently, Patricia began to nurture her entrepreneurial spirit and began working towards the development of her startup focused on creating more inclusive and sustainable college campuses. She is the founder of “college thrifts” which is a peer-to-peer platform for students/alumni to buy and sell college related gear. To date, she has rerouted over 1000 pounds of waste from landfills, saved students over 50% on the bookstore prices and been featured in various media publications including NASDAQ and the Miami Herald.

During her free time, Patricia spends her time volunteering and mentoring the future generation of STEM leaders. She is actively involved in TECHNOLOchicas, a national initiative of the National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT), and the Televisa Foundation, which is dedicated to raising awareness among young Latinas about careers in technology.

Katherine (Katie) Gerot

Bio coming soon.

Alyssa (Aly) Harris

Bio coming soon.

Silvia Jaramillo-Regalado

Silvia Jaramillo-Regalado, born and raised in Newark, NJ, is a senior in her undergraduate studies at Rutgers University-Newark pursuing a major in mathematics and a minor in international affairs. She is currently interning as the Audience Intelligence intern on CNN’s Digital Research & Analytics team. She is also the Director of Outreach and Fundraising and the incoming Executive Director of Organización Juventud Ecuatoriana, an Ecuadorian scholarship nonprofit in the NYC metropolitan area. She currently serves as a JROTC Advisory Committee Member for Barringer High School in NJ and the editor-in-chief of the Scarlet Ventures Newsletter, the premiere monthly newsletter publication of the Rutgers Venture Capital Club.

Throughout the past eight years, Silvia has dedicated herself to providing computing and engineering opportunities to low-income communities of underrepresented youth within the US in states like New Jersey and Georgia, as well as abroad in Colombia. She spearheaded the first city-wide club of Girls Who Code in Newark as well as founded and instructed several summer programs teaching web development, cyber security principles, and engineering fashion. She continues to collaborate on community projects exposing STEM resources to Black and Latinx students as an ambassador for the National Center of Women and Information Technology (NCWIT), Pearl Hacks, FabFems, PBS SciGirls, and the Televisa-backed organization TECHNOLOchicas. Founder of Vamos Por Más, a social media platform dedicated to pipelining scholarship info and higher education opportunities for all students regardless of immigration status, Silvia is deeply connected to the diversity of her hometown as well as the significant need for more accessibility of resources for inner city youth.

Upon graduation, Silvia aspires to enter the workforce as a data analyst and pursue a graduate degree in data science in the future. In her spare time, she enjoys watching Formula 1 and college football, playing soccer, volunteering, learning new languages, and cuddling with her cats.

Zoie Keys

Zoie Keys is currently an undergraduate student at Hendrix College, a private liberal arts college in Conway, Arkansas. She majors in Computer Science, and is highly involved in the CS community at her college. She has been a teaching assistant since freshman year for Foundations of Computer Science, and enjoys helping her peers with their CS coursework in her free time. She is also the President of Hendrix’s Computer Science Club, a member of the college’s programming team, and has started a Girls Who Code college loop at Hendrix. Zoie focuses on increasing retention and inclusion in the Computer Science field, and she has worked on this goal through her own extracurriculars at Hendrix. Zoie has another passion besides Computer Science, which is creative writing. She enjoys writing poetry as a hobby, and would like to combine her CS and creative writing skills to pursue video game design. However, Zoie currently works with her college’s HelpDesk, and would love to pursue a career abroad working in Information Technology at a U.S. foreign embassy. Being born and raised in Arkansas, she would love to study abroad as well, and see how different cultures interact with technology across the world.

KeeAnia Kinkacha

KeeAnia Kinkacha is an Information Technology student from Newport News, Virginia. She attended North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University in Greensboro, North Carolina, and held positions on several executive boards including, the President of Epsilon Pi Tau International Honor Society for Technology, and the Vice President for Women in Science and Technology. She was also a campus representative for National Center for Women in Technology for several years, bringing awareness to the organization and highlighting the opportunity and unity among women in computing. Recently, she served on a committee for the Black Wings group under Rewriting the Code organization, a subset of women in computing focused on black women in computing. KeeAnia has a passion for mentoring and has mentored in many capacities on her campus and back in her hometown.

KeeAnia has the privilege of working for Apple under their Colligate Work Program, where she was able to be immerse in the corporate work force and learn the culture of Apple. She worked on the Tier 1 IOS Phone support team, and also was a 2020 recipient of the Department of Defense (DOD) Science, Mathematics & Research for Transformation (SMART) Scholarship Program. From this scholarship opportunity, KeeAnia was able to intern at the largest Software Engineer Center for the U.S. Army on Aberdeen Proving Ground in Aberdeen, Maryland.

After graduation, KeeAnia aspires to begin her career as a cloud architect then matriculate into project management. Her long-term dreams are to open a non-profit organization that will benefit young black and brown children's development. It would focus on providing opportunities to gain exposure and experiences that are not often offered to this demographic to show all the different avenues of STEM. The organization will promote STEM programming, stress the importance of self-worth, as well as the privilege and opportunities in HBCUs at an early age.

Aparna Kumar

Aparna is a junior at Columbia University, School of Engineering and Applied Science where she is a Data Science Institute Scholar. She conducts research and develops software to support inter disciplinary research. She also serves as a resident advisor at her residence hall and recently took up the role of campus representative for NCWIT, as she believes in uplifting girls and women in the field of STEM and computing. Early on, Aparna developed a keen interest in math and science and aspires to be a technological innovator in the field of computer science. She has conducted several coding lessons for middle and high school children at her local library as part of the Let’s Code program. She also earned the Girl Scouts Gold Award for expanding computing and STEM in her community.

Aparna understands the seriousness of cybersecurity and how it is changing the way we interact and do business and she strongly believes that this area needs more focus in the coming years. She plans to continue her interests in cybersecurity, robotics, and artificial intelligence.

Lucy Kuo

Shin-Tsz (Lucy) Kuo is a senior studying computer science and economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She grew up in Wayzata, Minnesota (Minneapolis) with her Taiwanese immigrant parents and a younger brother.

On campus, she has been serving as the Service Chair for the Honors Student Organization, an officer of ACM-W, and Historian for the Chinese American Student Association for the past two years. She has been an active member of her social and STEM sorority since her freshman fall semester and was inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa honor society her sophomore year.

She joined a psychology research lab last year to work on a project connecting color visualization with sound.

In her free time, she can be found doing photography, playing violin, running as an ex-track and field athlete in high school, and going on nature walks. For her fun fact, she used to be a rhythmic gymnast.

Adriana Lopez Cajigas

Adriana was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico in 2001. In Puerto Rico she attended a private school called The American Military Academy. In a class of 98 students, Adriana was the top of the class. She was also heavily involved in many STEM programs available to her in the island. Here is when she first got involved with NCWIT. Then, in 2016, due to the economic depression, she moved to Houston, Texas. She graduated from Cywoods High School and currently is an undergraduate at University of Houston. Her major is computer engineering with a minor in creative work.

Adriana believes combining the STEM field with the arts can lead to new and insightful discoveries in the field. She has proved this with her work with the Brain Machine and Interface Lab at University of Houston. With them she has created a comic book with three parts about new and innovative projects in the field of Neuroscience (can be read here:https://adryswork.tumblr.com/Brain).

With NCWIT, Adriana created the first Mentor Circle program along with TEALS educator Tonya Davis. This program is intended to assist and inform girls about the opportunities available in the STEM field. In addition, Adriana is also the president of University of Houston TEA Club (Themed Entertainment Association). Here she assists students in getting into and informing them about the niche industry of theme parks. Furthermore, she tutors young children at a Mathnasium location.

As a short term goal, Adriana desires to expand her Mentor Circle project. As a long term goal she plans on being a theme park engineer or an educator. In her free time she likes to draw and watch animated movies.

Michelle Mao

Bio coming soon.

Daniela Markazi

Daniela Markazi graduated from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in December 2019 with dual bachelor's degrees in Agricultural and Biological Engineering (ABE). As an undergraduate student, she created her own computer science class within the ABE Department, conducted multiple research projects, including one in robotics engineering, and held leadership positions in various STEM organizations. Currently, she is an Informatics Ph.D. student at the School of Information Sciences at UIUC. Her research focuses on how technology is designed to contribute to, enhance, and influence social change and development. Outside of the university, Daniela has been working since 2018 as a robotics engineer at the John Deere Technology Innovation Center in Champaign, Illinois. Moreover, Daniela has been the chair of the Central Illinois Chapter of NCWIT Aspirations since 2015.

Anika Pruthi

College of New Jersey.

Mansi Saini

Mansi is an undergraduate at the University of California, Santa Cruz studying computer science with a specialization in game design. She is passionate about increasing diversity in the technology field through her involvement with TechTogether as a hacker and mentor, Hydrangea Hacks as an organizer, and the National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) as a campus representative. Mansi is an avid hacker who has won six hackathons and was a 2021 NCWIT Aspirations in Computing Regional Affiliate Winner. With her interest in human-computer interaction and development, she plans to work as a Software Engineer or UX & Cybersecurity Engineer in the future. In her free time, she is a national park enthusiast and enjoys learning languages.

Kaylie Sampson

Kaylie Sampson was born/raised in the suburbs of Boston as well as the town of Plymouth, NH. She is currently an undergraduate student at Dartmouth College where she is pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science with a minor in Digital Arts.

At Dartmouth, she is currently a Women in Science Project (WISP) intern where she works in the DALI Lab to develop an application using user studies, UI/UX design, and React. She is also a member of CoderDojo, where she helps teach beginner programming concepts to high schoolers and mentors middle and high school students interested in the STEM field. She is also an active member of Women in Computer Science (WiCS) and the Dartmouth Hacker Club. She is also a part of the Dartmouth First-Generation community.

In her free time, she is exploring the outdoors. She loves to swim, hike, and alpine/nordic ski. She also is passionate about weightlifting and tries to go to the gym almost every day. A fun fact about her is that she waterskis on Squam Lake most mornings of the summer.

Kayley Seow

Kayley Seow, pronouns she/her, is an undergraduate student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, hailing from the Bay Area, California. She is pursuing a Bachelors in Computer Science, with honors in the liberal arts. Selected as an Undergraduate Research Scholar through the College of L&S’s URS program, she is looking forward to exploring interdisciplinary research, blending CS and Sociology, with the UW Madison Justice Lab. Her on campus involvements also include performing with the University Band as a flutist, Society of Women Engineers (SWE), ACM Women in Computing (W-ACM), Honors Student Organization (HSO), and Rewriting the Code (RTC).

In her free time, Kayley spends it tinkering with her latest creations (preferably at hackathons), on photography, cross stitching, writing postcards, badminton, taking care of her goldfish, and geeking out with her friends. She can also be found frequenting Madison’s museums and bookstores, documenting the campus’ aquariums, and playing campus pianos — especially Memorial Union’s Steinway.

Kayley is a recipient of the 2021 NCWIT Aspirations in Computing National Honorable Mention award, as well as a Winner of the San Francisco Bay Area Affiliate award. Now serving as a Campus Representative, she hopes to introduce and support more students of underrepresented backgrounds to pursue computing and technology.

Rishitha Thambireddy

Bio coming soon.

Akhila Yellapragada

Akhila Yellapragada is currently a computer science and artificial intelligence student at The University of Georgia. She has been working with NCWIT for the past three years as an AspireIT Leader, where she partnered with research faculty at The Georgia Institute of Technology and the Fulton County Education Foundation to curate a technology mentoring program, Tech Talk, for young female students coming from marginalized backgrounds. She is actively involved with multiple organizations on campus aiming towards bridging the gender gap in the technology field. Some of these organizations include, but are not limited to Women in Technology, girls.code(), Girls Who Code, and ACM. In her free time, she enjoys dancing, coding, and photography. Akhila is looking forward to working alongside other highly driven women in the campus representatives group at NCWIT and bringing exciting, new ideas to her university.