Bea Mendez Gandica
Nuevo Foundation
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About
Beatris Mendez Gandica is the founder and CEO of Nuevo Foundation, a nonprofit that has reached more than 23,000 students across 86 countries through free coding workshops. She is also a Program Manager at Microsoft with more than a decade of experience shipping products at scale across Azure cloud and security engineering. Bea is the first Venezuelan American to have a life-size statue in the Smithsonian. She was recognized as an IF/THEN Ambassador for her work championing women and underrepresented communities in STEM. Born in Venezuela and raised between Venezuela, Miami, and Berlin, she discovered her love of technology through video games and has been building pathways into technology ever since.