Carla Stickler

Carla Stickler is a professional multi-hyphenate advocating for the inclusion of artists in STEM. Currently, she works as a web engineer at Spotify and was previously a software engineer at G2 in Chicago. She spent over 10 years performing in Broadway musicals, most notably, “Wicked,” “Mamma Mia!,” and “The Sound of Music.” Carla is passionate about reframing the narrative of the “starving artist” and states, “When we choose to walk away from a full-time pursuit of the arts, it does not make us failed artists. The possibilities for what we can do and who we can be are unlimited.”