The girls + data team is 100% volunteer, and many of us work hands-on with data in our day-jobs. We volunteer our time with girls + data because this is an organization that we wish had existed when we were in middle school, and we are eager for our daughters to participate in girls + data programs. Many of our current volunteers are career-changers; we studied a different subject in college or started our careers in a different industry before finding data and analytics. We are excited to be able to expose students to data topics and jobs so that they can discover their passion for working with data too!