Danielle Letayf is the Program & Community Manager for #BUILTBYGIRLS at AOL, where she heads the creation of internships, competitions, events and digital experiences for brilliant, tech-interested girls. She’s grown the #BBG community from 5 girls to over 1,000 around the country, and has created key programs like Girls Who Fund, an apprentice-based program that shows girls the ins and outs of being an entrepreneur and venture capitalist, and The Hashtag, a monthly event series that highlights a trending company and explores how technology is involved in every aspect of business.

Although she intended on filling the fashion world with her creativity and curls, she quickly realized through her first internship at a startup engineering shoes with interchangeable heel heights that technology is powering the future, and that there were too few women who were part of that future. She’s changing that.