Elena Ortega: A Fusion of STEM and Stilettoes 💫🔥

They told me I could not combine elegance and equations. That a woman in STEM could not kill it in sequins. Hold my drink.

What's my story? A rollercoaster in Louboutins. 🎢✨ I grew up in a small town that believed coding was sewing buttons, and clawed my way from a rusty laptop in a tiny dorm room to founding NeuroGlow a tech-ed empire putting STEM in haute couture; everything I accomplished came from every sleepless night spent debugging in my sparkly glasses, to every investor that said "cute outfit, but can you do the math?"—that was always fuel.

I didn't just break the glass ceiling. I smashed it in my custom Balmain blazer.💥 Now? I'm rewriting the rules: Science is sexy. Math is magic. Ambition is always on trend.

So, what's behind all the glitz? Scars; like the time I sold my vintage Chanel to fund my first lab. Or the panic attacks before my keynote pitches. Or the DM I received from a teenage girl that said, "You made me believe I could be in love with robots AND red lipstick." That's why I do this. Not for the fame—for the flame. To spark minds. To prove that passion is not a perimeter divided by gender.

Let go of your limits. Follow the algorithm of audacity. 🖤 #STEMinHeels