Paola Villarreal is a data scientist and full-stack developer with over 22 years of international experience leading multidisciplinary teams in the public and non-profit sector. She is the former head of data science and engineering at the National Council for Science and Technology of the Government of Mexico where she helped coordinate the Covid-19 Data Efforts. For her work on the field of Public Interest Data Science she's been recognized as an MIT Innovators under 35 LATAM, BBC's 100 Inspiring Women and was awarded a fellowship at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University.