Kamilla is a first-generation immigrant from Uzbekistan. She was the first in her family to get an education in the U.S. and earned a bachelor’s from the University of Pennsylvania, where she’d met her mentor with whom she eventually built Rise First, a non-profit with the goal of helping other first-generation students to navigate higher education and career paths. Kamilla holds a full-time role as a Senior Product Manager at OJO Canada, a startup backed by the Royal Bank of Canada with the aim to unlock the abundant benefits of homeownership for Canadian homeowners.