Hispanic Heritage Month: Elizabeth Ayala Mojica Encourages Minorities to Pursue CS

For aspiring computer scientists, especially those from minority backgrounds, it’s important to find community and belonging within the tech field. For computer science major Elizabeth Ayala Mojica, who was born and raised in Puerto Rico, community comes in the form of clubs and organizations at Georgia Tech and beyond.

However, she says the first step to pursuing CS was discovering that she could do it.

What made you decide to get into computer science?

I first…