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avillegas1717/README.md

👋 Hello world! I'm Alicia Villegas...

👩‍💻 Front-End Developer | Accessibility Advocate
🦾 Passionate about building inclusive, user-friendly web experiences
🎙 Moderator & Educator at Coding & Cocktails 👩‍💻🍸 (https://kcwomenintech.org/coding-cocktails/)
💻 IT Help Desk Apprentice | Gaining hands-on experience in tech support & troubleshooting

💻 Tech Stack:
Languages: C#, JavaScript
Frontend: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React
Backend: .NET Core, SQL
Tools & Frameworks: Git, GitHub, Visual Studio, VS Code

🤗 About Me:
📸 Recently transitioned to tech after 17+ years in management and photography
🎓 Graduated from a Full-Stack Development Bootcamp
👩‍💻 Love networking with women in Kansas City transitioning into tech and teaching Inroductory coding

👩‍🎨 What I’m Working On:
♿️ Exploring creative accessibility features using Raspberry Pi + TouchDesigner
📚 Working on CompTIA and Microsoft certifications for my apprenticeship
📝 Teaching women how to code through KC Women in Tech’s Coding & Cocktails program
🎤 Moderating KCWiT's Coding & Cocktails Leadership & Mentor Spolight panels
🛠 Revamping the Coding & Cocktails presentations for the 2025 series

😎 My life outside of tech:
🎨 Painting with watercolor and gouache
🎶 Collecting vinyl records
🌱 Growing my plant collection
🐶 Hanging with my pups Gizmo & Wilson
📍 Supporting local business in Kansas City

💬 Reach out to me on LinkedIn: (https://www.linkedin.com/in/alicia-m-villegas)

🤩 Still a huge fan of the 90s like me?? Watch a snake eating my contributions...

If you want to help feed my snake hire me to work for you 😉
snake gif

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