Success Stories

Alicia Calonico Soto

"Working with my Upwardly Global mentor, Ellen Snee, has been a fruitful experience. I get plenty of appropriate, clear and concise advice...excellent strategies to help me advance in the initial stages of my career as a research engineer at the National Ignition Facility project in Livermore. Her efforts have helped increase my understanding of how the American workplace functions. I have applied her suggestions and the outcome makes me feel more in control and confident. "

Post-Doc Research Associate, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Mexico

PhD, Optical Networks Design; MS, Telecommunications; BS, Electrical Engineering

5 years design, implementation, testing and evaluation of optical networks

Part-time cashier at fruit and vegetable market