High-Potential Women

When our female students and alumnae aren’t pushing boundaries in the classroom, research lab or board room, they’re applying their technical backgrounds to solving today’s toughest problems.

Through ESTEEM’s entrepreneurial sandbox, these high-potential women have advanced the worlds of technology, healthcare, finance, engineering and more.

Learn how their ESTEEM experiences have shaped their unique paths to success and helped them eclipse boundaries.

Stories of Success: Students & Alumnae of ESTEEM

Janaeé Wallace, ESTEEM ’16

Manager of Digital & Emerging Technology at EY

Hailing from the Bahamas, a country traditionally reliant on tourism, Janaeé Wallace recognized the critical need for diversifying talents, particularly advocating for STEM-oriented enterprises. Today, she puts her expertise to use for three angel investment groups, to accelerate pre-seed and seed-stage startups.

Eydis Lima, ESTEEM ’18

Founder and CEO of Curiva and Engineering Project Lead at C3 Medical

Alumna Eydis Lima is so passionate about the need for more universal gynecological cancer screenings that she founded a company, Curiva, with a technology platform intended to make potentially life-saving screenings exams more accessible, easier to implement, and with more immediate results.

Ashley Kalinauskas, ESTEEM ’13

Founder & CEO of Torigen Pharmaceuticals | Transforming Cancer Care for Dogs, Cats and Horses

Alumna Ashley Kalinauskas shares how her experience in the ESTEEM program paved the way for the success of her animal-focused startup, Torigen Pharmaceuticals.

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Ciara Dillon, ESTEEM ’24

Quality Engineer at The Foundry

Discover how the ESTEEM program provided Ciara with the tools, knowledge, and support to venture beyond traditional confines, shaping her into a problem solver and industry leader.

Anne-Marie Freeley, ESTEEM ’24

Private Equity Fellow at KIMC, Inc.

Alumna Anne-Marie Freeley found her true calling through the ESTEEM program. With a technical background, she developed her entrepreneurial skills while gaining valuable business knowledge to pursue her highest potential.

Julie Moylan, ESTEEM ’22

Associate at Irish Angels and Founder’s Associate for SorbaSHOCK™

One in four Americans over the age of 65 fall every year. ESTEEM alumna Julie Moylan assisted the founders of a medical technology called SorbaSHOCK™, a dual stiffness material that has been proven to reduce peak impact force of such a fall by up to 75 percent.