Jacqueline Zamora

I came to the U.S. when I was young as an exchange student, and I asked my father to just keep me here. Through the efforts of my family, they paid for my education, and I was able to achieve not just a bachelor's in linguistics, but also a master's in Community and regional planning and construction management, all from the University of New Mexico. I've always had an interest in construction. Things really lined up perfectly when I was working at the architecture firm, and I started overlooking at the construction site, and then I thought, you know what? Enough's enough. Let's go do this. I got into college for my second master's in construction, because I figured if anything was going to help me be more competitive would be to have the education, which I could then supplement with experience. I was featured in Forbes last year in my native Peru for being the first Peruvian woman to lead construction, fab construction, semiconductor fab construction for Intel. I was born in Lima, Peru. I've been doing music for the past 30 years. I've gone on tour, and music has been definitely a vehicle for me for healing, for sharing positive vibes and energy with people. I know we live in a very stressful world, highly stressful, highly competitive, but I've been able to remain calm and steadfast because of, first of all, my wonderful home life, and also because I have music. I've always had music and art in my life, and that has been very helpful in remaining level-headed and with proper mental health.