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Mozilla Foundation and the Department of Computer Science present GitHub Data Engineer, Lorena Mesa, who will host two events–November 17: 6 to 7 p.m. EST “Change we can all believe in: Lessons learned as a political scientist that trained me for life as a technologist.” November 19: 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. EST “Information Session on Careers, GitHub, and Open-source community.” RSVP to receive a link to Zoom here.
Political scientist turned coder, Lorena Mesa is a GitHub data engineer, director and chair of the Python Software Foundation, JOSS editor, and PyLadies Chicago co-organizer. Mesa’s time at Obama for America and her subsequent graduate research required her to learn how to transform messy, incomplete data into intelligible analysis on topics like predicting Latinx voter behavior. It’s this unique background in research and applied mathematics that drove Lorena to pursue a career in engineering and data science. One part activist, one part “Star Wars” fanatic, and another part Trekkie, Mesa abides by the motto to “live long and prosper.”