Watch Marcia Backstrom, DVM, veterinarian and senior clinician at BluePearl Veterinary Partners in Ann Arbor, Michigan, describe her typical day as an emergency care doctor.

Veterinarian Marcia Backstrom shares valuable career guidance and life advice.

Watch Violeta Garcia, Ph.D., STEM Activist and founder of STEM Learning By Design, share how her family fled El Salvador to America when she was a young child and how she started her life in America without knowing any English. She is a big believer in STEM careers because they pay well and will help to solve some of the world's biggest problems of the future. She gets inspiration from a famous Mexican proverb, "they tried to bury us but they didn’t know we were seeds.”