Marisol B Gamboa is the Computing Workforce Manager at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, where she is responsible for overseeing the organization’s workforce planning, hiring, and recruiting activities. Marisol participates in several institutional committees and manages the Computing Scholar Program, which consistently accounts for one-third of the Lab’s student interns and is a critical hiring pipeline. 

Marisol has 20+ years of technical and managerial experience at LLNL, including assignments supporting the National Ignition Facility and Global Security. She has led software teams, been a program manager/principal investigator, and had several roles in line management. Marisol was co-director of the Data Science Summer Institute, and a member of the Lab’s Science Education Program Advisory Council. 

 Marisol is deeply committed to STEM outreach, working to inspire and support future generations of innovators.  At LLNL, she has led impactful initiatives, including the Data Science Challenge with UC Merced (director), the Consortium Enabling Cybersecurity Opportunities and Research program (manager), and various other events as a speaker and panelist. Most recently, Marisol has been asked to chair the Lab’s advisory committee at the National Academies of Science, Engineering, Medicine. Beyond the Lab, Marisol has volunteered with the San Joaquin Expanding Your Horizons conference, the New Mexico Supercomputing Challenge for teens, and other programs that connect young minds to possibilities within STEM.  Her passion for outreach is an extension of her own experience as a high schooler in the New Mexico Supercomputing Challenge. Marisol earned a B.S. in computer science from the University of New Mexico as a proud first-generation college graduate, and her work reflects her believe in the transformative power of education and mentorship.