Monica Powell is a software engineer who is passionate about making  contributing to open-source more approachable and building community.  
She enjoys contributing to projects that elevate people whether that’s building technology to increase access to e-books with The New York Public Library, creating tools to support Meetup’s community organizers, sending curated content to diverse job-seekers at scale or running a ReactJS community for women and non-binary React developers. She was recently selected to be an inaugural GitHub Star based on her involvement in the tech community.