Women Who Reign: Morgan Oh

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I look around.

Current location: Charlotte, NC.

I finished my first year at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. This summer, I interned at one of the nation’s biggest banks. And now, I’m entering my sophomore year at Vanderbilt University as an engineer major.

As I reflect on this year, I realize so much has happened.

A little over a year ago, I returned to the United States from my gap year. For eight months I lived in El Salvador, mentoring female youths and exposing them to Computer Science (CS) through my program, the BeMe Foundation.

I stepped on Carolina’s campus as a CS major, holding onto the promise I made with my students in El Salvador: I’d continue pursuing my interest in CS. However, it wasn’t until my second semester that I felt like I had a sense of what CS truly was. If my gap year was the road that led me to the door to the realm of…