HeadStart Fellowship
Diya Bansal has a diverse work experience spanning multiple companies and roles. Currently, they hold the position of Vice President of Mentorship at HeadStart Fellowship, where they empower diverse students to achieve their career goals. Diya also serves as a HeadStart Fellow at the same organization. In 2023, Diya will work as a Software Development Engineering Co-op at Amazon Fulfillment Technologies & Robotics and as a Software Engineering Intern at Bloomberg. In previous positions, they held roles such as Lead Developer in the Mobile App Team at Cornell University Sustainable Design (CUSD) and Summer Intern for Machine Learning at Metacube Software Pvt Ltd. Diya also has experience as a Lead Organizer & President at TED Conferences, where they organized TEDx Youth conferences and created TedEd curriculum for students. Additionally, they have served as Alumni Relations Co-Director and Career Development Co-Director at Women In Computing At Cornell.
Diya Bansal attended GEMS Education from 2009 to 2021, where they completed their ICSE & ISC education at GEMS Modern Academy. In 2016, they also briefly studied cryptology at the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth (CTY). Currently, they are pursuing a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science (Class of 2025) at Cornell University.
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HeadStart Fellowship
The HeadStart Fellowship is a mentorship program designed to give high achieving college students a “head start” on their professional and personal development. The program will give students exposure to professional opportunities and guidance within the technology, finance & consulting fields. Our mission is to be a platform to allow fellows to discover what they would like to do professionally and serve as a launchpad for them to achieve their professional goals through mentorship and community. Throughout our programming, fellows get exposure to industries and firms within our three core verticals and many opportunities to hear from senior leaders across the business world. Fellows have gone on to achieve great successes by landing roles at firms such as Amazon, Apple, Bain, Blackstone, Centerview, Goldman Sachs, McKinsey, Salesforce, and Uber! To learn more, please check out our website! https://headstartfellowship.com/