Don't let anyone rob you of your imagination, creativity, or curiosity. It's your place in the world; it's your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live.”

- Mae Jemison, first African-American woman to travel into space

Hello, I’m Demi Muyuela. I am a senior in computer engineering with a concentration in cybersecurity at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth (UMassD). I work as a content developer and instructor for Code Ninjas in Wellesley, MA, and as an undergraduate research assistant at the STEM Learning and Identity Research Group at UMassD. Even in my spare time, I love to volunteer for STEM outreach programs including STEM4Girls, STEAM Your Way 2 College, and at Our Sisters’ School’s game design club.

As a Filipino-American woman, I strive to be the person who encourages students – especially young women of color – to know they are supported, wanted, and needed in STEM. I believe more girls, and more students of color, deserve to feel that they are the scientists, the engineers, and the contributors to STEM that they dream of. Not only that, but that they can do so while continuing to be authentically themselves. At Y4STEM, we strive to increase accessibility to STEM and encourage the growth of confident and diverse STEM communities.