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Marisol B. Gamboa is the computing workforce manager at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), where she is responsible for overseeing the organization’s workforce planning, hiring, and recruiting activities. Marisol participates in several institutional committees and manages the Computing Scholar Program, which consistently accounts for one-third of the Lab’s student interns and is a critical hiring pipeline.

Marisol has more than 20 years of technical and managerial experience at LLNL, including assignments supporting the National Ignition Facility and Global Security. She has led software teams, been a program manager/principal investigator, and had several roles in line management. Marisol was co-director of the Data Science Summer Institute, a member of the Lab’s Science Education Program Advisory Council, and a member of the Diversity and Inclusion Committee. Marisol participates in numerous STEM outreach activities, particularly aimed at young women and underrepresented minorities. Her involvements on behalf of LLNL have included the Data Science Challenge with the University of California, Merced (director), the Consortium Enabling Cybersecurity Opportunities and Research program (manager), and Women in Data Science regional events (speaker/panelist). Most recently, Marisol has been asked to chair the Lab’s Transforming Trajectories for Women of Color in Tech advisory committee. Outside the Lab, Marisol has volunteered with the San Joaquin Expanding Your Horizons conference, the New Mexico Supercomputing Challenge for teens, the TECHNOLOchicas national initiative to encourage Latina young women to pursue computational careers, and more. Her passion for outreach is an extension of her own experience as a high schooler in the New Mexico Supercomputing Challenge. Marisol earned a BS in computer science from the University of New Mexico, where she was a first-generation college student.
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