Executive Director
Xyla comes to Beauty and the Bolt from both an engineering and an entrepreneurial background, having successfully funded her for-profit company Parihug in 2016 where she served as CEO and lead engineer. As a co-founder of Beauty and the Bolt, Xyla strives to be the woman she wish she had to look up to growing up: passionate and invested in technical work while maintaining femininity and creativity. Xyla is obsessed with changing the way we educate our youth - especially in regards to engineering and making.