“Once I reached a place that somewhat resembled stability and became the first member of my family to hold a corporate job, I wanted to give back the opportunity that so many had given me up to that point. I connected with a non-profit that had just started at the time, called Resilient Coders, which was running a small after school program to spread code literacy to young people from traditionally underserved communities as a way to help break the cycle of poverty. Using what I’d learned from my own experience, I started teaching students that might not have had the opportunity to go to college, but who had an incredible passion for technology.”