Salome Beyer Velez
Salome Beyer Velez is a Fellow at Latin America Reports. Born in Medellín, Colombia, Salome studies history and politics at the University of Edinburgh. She's a columnist at Colombian outlet No Apto, and was a former Project Assistant for the Global Forum for Media Development, as well as the President of the University of Edinburgh Latin American Society.
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Marcela Torres is the former CEO of Hola Code, a Mexican social enterprise that provides software development training for refugees and migrants who have returned to Mexico after having lived in the U.S. She was recently named winner of the ‘Entrepreneur’ category in the list of Latin America’s top innovators under the age of 35 published by MIT Technology Review. In honour of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science earlier this month, we interviewed Torres about being a female CEO of a tech company in Latin America, a region lacking support and funding for women working in STEM.