When Karishma Nageshwaran reached out to Dweebs Global, an organization I co-founded to provide free mentorship to people around the world, she had a simple ask—she wanted to improve her portfolio so she could get a good job upon graduation and to start feeling “significant.” She explains, “People have always looked at me as a young girl with small aspirations in life who is not bold enough to deal with the outside world. I’ve had to try to break that stereotype my whole life.”