Skye Mayo

As a student on the Prescott Campus, she longed to find a sense of community as she shifted from her New York City home to a town with a much smaller population.

Being at a university where the vast majority of the student population enter careers in STEM upon graduation, Mayo feels the importance of seeing students who look like her critical to increasing the number of minorities on campus. “I want to inspire more diversity because there’s a lot of brilliant people in the world,” she said.

“I know there are a lot of people who lose interest in subjects because they’re afraid of discrimination,” she said. But Mayo hopes to be a beacon of change and create a safe place where diversity is embraced and celebrated. While she doesn’t know where her career journey will take her this early in her journey at Embry-Riddle, she wants to be a part of a cultural shift in STEM industries.

“My goal is to join a company and spark a change where more industries start to see that diversity is okay to have,” she reflects. “It’s actually a great thing to have.”