Monica Powell is a software engineer who is passionate about making getting started with open source more approachable, creating technology to elevate people, and building community. You can find her building educational technology as a Senior Software Engineer at Newesela, teaching web development, contributing to open source projects, and tending to React Robins, a community she founded for women and non-binary React developers. In 2020, she was selected to be an inaugural GitHub Star 🌟 based on her involvement in the tech community.