A compilation of words of wisdom from our cherished parents — My parents and I arrived in the United States in 2001 — and I will never forget the days before I knew English. I walked around the first day of school crying uncontrollably. I had never felt so lost in my life. I didn’t know how to communicate in this…

By: Gefen Skolnick (she/her) Who am I? Let me introduce myself. I’m Gefen and my pronouns are she/her. I’m a 23-year-old first-gen immigrant. I’m visibly queer, and I identify as a lesbian. I spent three years in community college at Santa Monica College, where I spent half those three years working fulltime at…

By: Gefen Skolnick and Miki Reynolds Miki Reynolds is currently the Executive Director of Grid110, an early-stage startup accelerator and community development non-profit in Los Angeles. Grid110 partners with the Office of Los Angeles Mayor, Eric Garcetti, in order to support early-stage entrepreneurs by providing access to critical resources such…

The perspective of a Computer Science major I started out at community college as soon as I graduated high school. I saved a lot of money for my first two years of college, but there were some experiences I felt left out of. The first two years of college are…

The perspective of a Computer Science major I started out at community college as soon as I graduated high school. I saved a lot of money for my first two years of college, but there were some experiences I felt left out of. The first two years of college are…

A Coder’s Journey into the world of Entrepreneurship I come from a world of hackathons, overwhelming loads of work from STEM classes, and coding until the morning to fix bugs. Most of this work is done independently and in a highly competitive setting, and it’s been quite the journey. It…

Can code be poetic? As a poet before a coder, I apply my poetic process to my coding process. Actually, I apply my poetic process to all things in life. …