Noramay Cadena spent the better part of a decade building airplanes and satellites for aerospace giant Boeing. But after earning mid-career business and master’s degrees from MIT, she started to chafe at the restrictions of the company’s corporate culture.
“I hit walls,” she said, in a must-read interview with Brinc . “And ceilings.”
That frustration led her to leave the company and found two organizations: a nonprofit called Latinas in STEM that supports young women in tech careers, and Make in LA, a Los Angeles accelerator that aims to become a hub for the city’s hardware startups.
Looking to forerunners like Bolt and HAX, Cadena recently brought a cadre of portfolio companies to China to connect with manufacturers there. “There really is nothing like traveling and being in the scene first-hand to inspire a founder to get to the manufacturing stage,” she said.
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