Keynote Speaker on Immigration, Latino America, and DEI in the Workplace.

About Me

My Experience

Latino keynote speaker, journalist, and engineer at The Boeing Company

My name is Bryan Zapata and I am the audacity of Hope! Yup, I’m the guy who embraces the “Tough times don’t last, but tough people do” and “the darkest nights make the brightest stars” quotes, and embody them through my everyday life. My life experiences has made me develop a passion for engineering, storytelling, law, politics, and world affairs. Through my experience traveling all over the world and multidisciplinary roles I've developed team building, human conflict response, and problem solving skills that have lead me to my passion for improving the lives of everyday people. I strive to use engineering, politics, the law, and storytelling to bring divided communities together, redefine the soul of our nation, and expand the opportunities our nation has to more people.

My Skillset

My strategic and interpersonal skills allow me to unify the divided. My individualization skills allow me to make every person feel valued and develop new aspirations in the work place. My biggest asset in any environment is the power to tell stories. Using building blocks of common understanding and empathy my storytelling can shed light to important issues and educate others on using new knowledge to make their communities better for everyone.

My Goals

I am looking for opportunities to speak and inspire solutions that better represent the people around them. I am always looking to learn more and am open to taking on challenging projects.

Why?

Through my experience traveling the world and advocating for a better life for everyone I have seen how much we all have in common. I believe that in every setting there exist shared empathy. I want to find that empathy in every setting to bring divided people together and lift each other up without tearing each other down. That is what our world can be and must be!

Education and Background

B.S. Industrial and Systems Engineering with Political Science from Virginia Tech (Blacksburg, VA) Class of 2022
Park View High School (Sterling Park, VA) Class of 2018

Professional Experience

Industrial Engineer II at The Boeing Company (Sep. 2022-Present)
Hispanic Scholarship Fund Scholar (2018-Present)
News Reporter at the Latino News Network (2020-2022)

Keynote Speaker on Available Topics

DEI in the workplace
Immigration in America
Latinos in America
Building Bridges of Empathy
Unlocking your True Potential
Intersection of STEM and Liberal Arts

Keynote Performances/Speeches

2021 Homecoming Court

Chosen by the Virginia Tech Homecoming Board to represent the university on the 2021 Homecoming Court. Sponsored by the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity to advocate for more divesity, equity, and inclusivity resources for student organizations. Campaigned on hope and brought common understanding and empathy into every conversation. We broadened everyone's ideas on what is possible and showed that we all share the same hopes, dreams, and aspirations.

2022 Loudoun County Public Schools Commencement Speaker

Was chosen by Park View High School in Loudoun County to be their commencement speaker for the class of 2022. Recognized as the youngest commencement speaker in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Personal experiences, work, and speech has broken stereotypes and walls surrounding the Sterling Park community that have unnecessarily divided us. Successfully inspired minority communities to pursue their ambitious dreams and to redefine the world narrative where we can all coexist.

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