Kara Branch is the Founder and CEO of Black Girls Do Engineer Corporation a 501
(c)(3) nonprofit organization founded in June 2019 and located in Houston, TX . Black Girls
Do Engineer is passionate about developing young women in all areas of STEM. Black
Girls Do Engineer provides mentoring, personal growth regimens, STEM projects and
activities, and guidance on career paths based on insight from professional women that
are leaders in the STEM industry. Our organization goals are to provide access,
awareness, and advocate for two million Black-American girls to pursue STEM careers
by the year 2050.
Kara is an alumnus of The Prairie View A&M University and hold a Bachelor of Science
in Chemical Engineering (2015) and Master of Business Administration (MBA) in Executive
MBA (2021). Black Girls Do Engineer was founded based on Kara personal experiences in the
STEM industry and always wishing she had someone who looked like her to show her the way.
Now she is here to be the one who look like you to show you the way. She has gone through a lot
of trails but now she has developed a STEM program to help girls ages 6- 21-year-old prepare
and thrive the STEM industry. Her STEM program challenges girls to be critical thinkers and
encourages girls to choose STEM and they are. Her challenges are paying off. She took girls in
her organization who had no STEM background to finalist in the NASAWear Challenge, where
they beat out 70 plus teams around the nation.
Kara started her career going directly into boardrooms with clients with her calculator
walking them through her grass roots design projects. She has design one of the first plants of its
kind in the USA. In her 7-year career, she has managed 15 plus improvement projects starting at
$1 million to multi-million dollars in the Oil & Gas industry and as a Project Manager in the
Space Industry supporting NASA and currently works as a manager for Intel. She has served as a
Science and Engineering Lead and Diversity & Inclusion Region Chapter Leader for ERG
groups in Corporate America. She also holds a Lean Six Sigma Green Belt certification. She was

selected to participate in the National Black MBA Association Accelerator