Women Who Reign: Michelle Chen

“The best protection any woman can have … is courage.” — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Tell us about yourself along with a fun fact!
My name is Michelle, and I’m currently a junior at Duke majoring in CS. I’m really interested in the intersection between technology and social impact; to that end, I co-direct HackDuke, the nation’s largest collegiate hackathon addressing social good. We bring in engineers and high impact non-profits and sponsors to create innovative products and projects, and put on various initiatives throughout the year that emphasize cross-disciplinary creation and exploration within the Duke developer community. I’ve also got a pretty wide array of interests outside of tech — I’ll be interning in investment banking for this upcoming summer of 2017, and I’m considering picking up a Women’s Studies minor for fun.

A fun fact about me is that the bottom half of my left front tooth is fake (it’s a long story).

What # would define your life journey?
#fakeittillyoumakeit

Favorite website / app: I use Inbox by Google on the daily; it’s intuitive and helps me turn my emails into a to do list.