Laura Mazuera (she/her)
Program Manager Fellow
Laura graduated from Boston University, where she studied Biomedical Engineering. She grew up between South Florida and Bogotá, Colombia, in a household of engineers, where curiosity and a love for STEM were cultivated from an early age. After college, Laura worked in research at Boston University Medical Campus and Brigham and Women's Hospital, studying the effects of volatile anesthetics on neurons and postoperative atrial fibrillation after cardiac surgery, work that deepened her interest in the connection between science and patient care. Along the way, she noticed that even though many of her peers in engineering and research were women, leadership in those spaces still skewed heavily male. That observation stuck with her, and it's part of what drives her passion for helping the next generation, especially young women from immigrant families like her own, see themselves as future leaders in STEM. Laura first got involved with Science Club for Girls as a mentor, and after years of loving every part of it, she knew right away she wanted to take on a more active role as a Program Manager Fellow.
A STEM hero I admire is Dr. Nubia Muñoz, a Colombian epidemiologist whose research established human papillomavirus as the leading cause of cervical cancer. Her work paved the way for the HPV vaccine, and she was put forward for the Nobel Prize in Medicine.
