After earning a degree in electrical engineering, Lisa Stephens spent nine years in software at IBM before taking an extended break from her career to raise her family. Finding returning to professional work to be more challenging than she had anticipated, she spent a couple of years working on a Master’s degree and then intensive independent study to learn modern software development. Lisa then found and was accepted into a mid-career internship at Return Path as a software engineer via the precursor to Path Forward. Six years later she has moved into engineering leadership and continues to grow as a leader as well as an advocate for women and other underrepresented people in technology.