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How To Re-Design How Girls Learn STEM - Suz Somersall, KiraKira

Guest User December 6, 2017

From her childhood as a self-confessed gaming nerd to her career as an engineering-inspired artist (or is it art-inspired engineer?), Suz Somersall has made a life of her own design. She's now the founder of KiraKira, a learning program that makes girls feel confident and excited about creating new products using 3D printing, design-thinking and STEAM concepts.

We’ll hear how Suz redefined her role from military wife to entrepreneur---with her husband fighting halfway across the world.

This week on "Inflection Point," Suz shares how, despite a career full of pivots, one's life can ultimately lead in the same direction all along.

Suz Somersall (in pink) and the KiraKira team

Dr. Lina Nilsson on Female Engineers

Lauren Schiller December 14, 2015

Lina Nilsson is a bio-chemical engineer, and was the Innovation Director for the Blum Center for Developing Economies at UC Berkeley. She wrote an Op-Ed in the NYTimes called "How to Attract Female Engineers" and in our conversation, she shares some of the letters she received in opposition to this idea. She is now Head of Market Development at Enlitic--where the goal is to help doctors make medical diagnoses better--and faster.

Listen to the full interview above, or read the edited and condensed interview in Fortune Most Powerful Women.