It was in fourth grade at career day when a classmate’s dad talked about being an engineer that Daniella Rivera thought, “I want to do that.” And she’s doing it. She’ll graduate in May with a degree in Mechanical Engineering with an Aerospace Engineering emphasis, and she credits her parents for teaching her to be driven and confident in her hard skills. When first starting out in the program, she didn’t want people to know she was an engineer. It was after joining the Society of Women Engineers, of which she also served as president , that she got to see powerful women be proud of what they were doing. “I realized it’s ok to be a girl who can be smart and look good while doing it.” This newfound confidence led her to meeting with the college’s dean to see if she could reorganize the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers, a club that had disassembled during Covid. “Being a woman of color, we don’t see a lot of ourselves in the college,” she explained. Daniella said while that’...