Clifford Freeman

Young People's Project

Cliff Freeman is the Director of STEM Programs at the Young People’s Project and a Ph.D student at Boston University, studying Mathematics and Science Education. Cliff is a BPS graduate of New Mission HS & also has a degree from Wentworth Insituite of Technology. Cliff is particularly interested in innovative and equitable approaches that broaden participation in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) education and careers for populations of youth who have been historically underrepresented. Cliff’s journey to this point began in the 10th grade when he began working at the Young People’s Project, when it was awarded a $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation (award #1031633). Cliff’s main responsibility was to design, prepare, and implement how he and his peers would teach math and computer science lessons to hundreds of middle and elementary school students in his neighborhood. Cliff’s STEM story is a story he hopes millions of other disenfranchised youth can replicate: in his case, this journey led him from being a student, to professional work as a young adult, and eventually into research in the STEM education field.

Hannah Mei

Vertex

Hannah Mei is a former BPS graduate from John D. O’Bryant School of Math and Science. She is currently working at Vertex Pharmaceuticals as a Quality Control Associate.

Bea Mitchell

DTCC

Bea attended Dorchester High, and attended a media program at Madison Park, and went straight into the workforce after that due to family hardships. She is now the Director of Technology at Depository Trust and Clearing Company. She has been in application development for over 20+ years. In the last 2.5 years, she has added User Experience and Design to her portfolio! She collaborates with Business and Development leaders across the Enterprise to improve their strategic approach from a UX/UI perspective. In the last 5 years, she has worked with DTCCs early career resources. starting with middle school. In addition to her current responsibilities, she is building a rotational program for their early career college students in IT. This will give them first-hand experience to several areas in DTCC they would not have exposure to if they were assigned to one area.

Sgardy Pena

Wentworth

Hassan Sakhta

SmithGroup

Hassan Sakhta currently works as an Electrical Engineer at SmithGroup. He was born and raised in Boston and graduated from BLA in 2014. He prides myself in participating in a lot of different avenues that excite him and looks to grow as a person and engineer everyday.