Career Pathways

Most student founders do not start with a 400‑slime pop‑up in London or a bilingual childhood split between Los Angeles farmers markets and Hungarian summers. But that is the short…

Sometimes the projects that change things for women do not start in boardrooms or pitch days. They start in quiet research, in late-night writing, and in small online communities that…

I caught myself one night staring at a dead power strip in a campus makerspace, thinking, "We raised money for cloud credits, but we cannot turn on the 3D printer."…

You probably do not wake up thinking about car wrecks or hospital bills. But if you drive, bike, ride a scooter, or even walk around Brentwood, injury law is closer…

Late at night, when campus gets quiet and the library hum drops, it is strange what your brain locks onto. For me, it was this simple, slightly uncomfortable thought: if…

I remember walking past a random off-campus house and thinking, "Why does this tiny yard look better than half the businesses downtown?" That was the moment it hit me that…

Sometimes it feels like the startup world keeps repeating the same story: the loudest voices get funded, and those voices are usually not young women. So what chance does a…

I remember sitting in a dorm lounge at 1:30 a.m., staring at a half-melted power strip and thinking, "This is how my startup dies, not with a funding rejection, but…

I remember walking out of an interview thinking, "If this place is so great, why did everyone look exhausted at 10 a.m.?" That was the moment I realized the real…