Women Who Reign: Vasudha Rengarajan

“One of the most courageous things you can do is identify yourself, know who you are, what you believe in and where you want to go.” — Sheila Murray Bethel
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Tell us about yourself along with a fun fact!
I’m a Bay Area native currently at Columbia University studying Computer Science. At Columbia, I’m on the Managing Team of Girls Who Code, an Operating Committee Leader for Columbia Organization of Rising Entrepreneurs (CORE), and a proud member of Latino dance troupe Sabor! A fun and random fact is that throughout high school, I learned classical voice and actually got the opportunity to sing opera at Carnegie Hall a couple times!

Growing up, I was fortunate to start coding pretty young. My trajectory from then on has been anything but a straight line. I’ve messed around with iOS game coding, done bioinformatics work at a research lab, learned computer music languages to program MIDI controllers and laptop orchestras (my funnest coding experience!), learned some computational journalism while working for my high school newspaper, fiddled my way through hardware hacking, and most recently had a blast interning at Salesforce in San Francisco.

I also love to perform, write, and travel. (My favorite location so far is Marrakech!)