Danielle Feinberg is a woman who works for Pixar Animation Studios. She studied computer science at Harvard University, and found interest in computer animation. After this realization, she decided to pursue her new interest, and landed an entry-level technical position working on A Bug’s Life. As she got deeper and deeper into the studio’s works, and found that lighting was where all the magic was for her. She fought for a specific scene in Finding Nemo involving a cluster of jellyfish, wanting to work with the lighting of the sea creatures, and amazed her peers with her work. She encourages young women to use STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) to change social issues they care about.

Quote: “You can get a lot of things by working hard…You don’t have to have some sort of genius; you just have to work hard.”