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Alejandra Trejo
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817
Language
English
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Summary

Alejandra Trejo Rodriguez, a GitHub intern and student at New York University Abu Dhabi, shares her experience working on a project aimed at enhancing accessibility for non-English speakers by localizing GitHub Learning Lab courses. Motivated by her own experiences as a native of Monterrey, Mexico, she chose to focus on reducing language barriers in STEM education. Her project involved translating popular Learning Lab courses, like "Introduction to GitHub," into Japanese and Spanish, with the help of GitHub's international community and Employee Resource Groups. Alejandra's work included user interviews and testing, which led to adjustments in course design and language preference settings to improve user experience. Her manager encouraged her to focus on the impact of her work rather than the quantity of code written, emphasizing the importance of coordination and communication in engineering. Her localization efforts will be highlighted at PyCon LatAm in Mexico, where they will assist in authoring courses for non-English speakers, contributing to the broader goal of strengthening global developer communities.