Our International Executive Leaders
Passion. Expertise. Community-builders.
Our uBridge executive leaders are committeed to making education in STEM more equitable to students no matter what background they are from. They work hard to spread uBridge's mission and expand the number of young innovators we can impact.
Berks uBridge Leadership Team
The Berks uBridge chapter is committed towards the following focus areas:
*running clubs and workshops for local students in the Berks County region in PA
about the founder
My name is Vanesa Aguay.
I started the idea of uBridge to get youth, especially Latinos, engaged in community building in the form of a soccer camp in early 2022. Soon after, I began to see how excited these young kids were when I began doing science experiments with them. Once I began some neurophysiology research at Carnegie Mellon, where I discovered my passion for biomedical engineering, I was able to connect that to my love for entrepreneurship and advocacy. As a Latina, I never saw anyone that looked like me in any articles, classes, or speaking events I went to. I could never have imagined myself becoming an engineer until I realized the empowerment that came from connecting with their communities. I was able to grow uBridge exponentially, taking what I have learned, through my global community from Yale YGS, my Latina empowerment from the Hispanic Scholarship Fund's YLI, and my newfound passion for STEM from the Governor's School. As a rising senior in PA, I hope to spread the world of opportunities that a STEM education can bring, applying it to every academic field they desire, and hoping to empower young underrepresented students within a global community to show them that they, too, can be the next innovators that can change our world no matter where they came from.
