Raquel Reyes

In November 2020, Raquel founded her Spanish-language blog Disrupción de ella, where she publishes scientific dissemination content. She also runs an Instagram account of the same name, posting short informative videos on topics ranging from the Butterfly Nebula to artificial intelligence and the Turing test. Her audience of 108k followers gets a steady stream of accessible science, delivered with the enthusiasm of someone who genuinely loves the material. "I share what I am passionate about in the hope of inspiring someone like you," she writes on her blog, echoing Katya Echazarreta, the first Mexican woman to travel to space. Raquel is also candid about her love for museums and challenging situations.

That drive carried her into competitive programs. She earned one of 60 spots in NASA's International Air and Space Program, where her team won a competition by proposing a lunar exploration mechanism with the flexibility NASA's Space and Rocket Center researchers wanted. The prototype is set to launch to the Materials International Space Station Experiment module (MISSE) for six months in orbit. In 2021, Raquel joined Huawei's Semillas del Futuro, a training initiative active in over 137 countries. She and her team won the 2021 edition of its Mexico class by developing an app that uses Machine Learning and data analysis to cut food waste in medium and large restaurants in Mexico City. Although the app hasn't reached the market, Raquel says the experience helped her blend cybersecurity ideas and Machine Learning into her engineering toolkit. She now moves between blogging, social media, and ambitious tech projects with the same restless mind that started it all.