Women Who Reign: Esmeralda Murray

“Don’t be intimidated by what you don’t know. That can be your greatest strength and ensure that you do things differently from everyone else.” — Sara Blakely
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Tell us about yourself along with a fun fact!
I’m currently a junior at Syracuse University studying Quantitative Economics and International Relations. On campus, I’m the fiscal agent for Jerk Magazine, the Blog Editor for Active Minds, a member of the Student Conduct Board, #44Social, the Transfer Transitions Team and Women in Technology (WIT), an alumna of OrangeSeeds, and a recently-appointed delegate of Syracuse’s Model United Nations Team.

I first started “coding” when I made a Neopets account and decided to change the theme of my guild using HTML by trial and error; I remember my favorite element being <marquee>. Though I’ve always been enamored by the tech industry, I never once considered programming for a living until I taught myself Python during my free time in order to expedite data analysis for a summer internship. Now I want to pursue data science for a living and I work on at least one personal technical project a week! As for a fun fact — I have two first names, two middle names and two last names. My nickname, Mila, is derived from my second first name (weird, I know), Milagros.