Women Who Reign: Marianne Linhares

“It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but even more to stand up to your friends.” — J.K. Rowling
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Tell us about yourself along with a fun fact!
Hey everyone, my name is Marianne Linhares, I’m from Brazil and I’m a Computer Science undergraduate student at the Universidade Federal de Campina Grande and currently a fellow coach at the Paraíba State Olympiad in Informatics.

Things I’m passionate about: my friends and family, education, math, music, code, pizza, video games, this video, and helping people (in no particular order, but pizza first haha).
Things I just don’t tolerate: prejudice, ignorance, a closed mind and a closed heart.

Fun fact about me: I’ve played the electric guitar since I was 11 years old. At that time I specifically wanted to learn to play the electric guitar instead of acoustic guitar because I was really into rock’n’roll and I wanted to be a rock star (I still really want this though).

Since then music has been very present in my life, once in awhile I upload some covers of me playing guitar and other instruments on my soundcloud, I have a lot of playlists on Spotify (humbly, they’re awesome) and I’m currently learning to play keyboard!