{"id":1479,"date":"2026-10-01T20:37:47","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T20:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.www.purdue.edu\/bop-plus\/?p=1479"},"modified":"2026-11-05T15:21:49","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T15:21:49","slug":"breejha-quezada-bio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/bop-plus\/breejha-quezada-bio\/","title":{"rendered":"Breejha Quezada"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"modal-ready\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Breejha Quezada<\/strong><br><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong>Director, Don and Liz Thompson MEP Program<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>What I do:<\/strong> As director of the Don and Liz Thompson MEP Program, I connect students with engineering pathways, career opportunities and personalized campus resources tailored to their goals, as well as events and programs for high school students in grades 10-12 and incoming first-year engineering students. My goal is to help build an inclusive, supportive bridge for students to thrive academically, professionally and personally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Background:<\/strong> I earned my bachelor\u2019s degree in mechanical engineering from the University of California, Riverside, and my master\u2019s degree in engineering education at Purdue. My experience as a Purdue alumna deeply informs my work, giving me a personal appreciation for the Boilermaker journey and the communities that make it meaningful. I am driven by a passion for creative problem-solving and empowering students from all backgrounds to see themselves as successful engineers and leaders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>More about me:<\/strong> I genuinely love math, science and tinkering, and my favorite part of this work is helping others discover that same excitement. When I am not working with students, you can usually find me diving into puzzles, exploring new ideas or finding fun ways to make complex concepts click.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Breejha Quezada Director, Don and Liz Thompson MEP Program What I do: As director of the Don and Liz Thompson MEP Program, I connect students with engineering pathways, career opportunities and personalized campus resources tailored to their goals, as well<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/bop-plus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/bop-plus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/bop-plus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/bop-plus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/bop-plus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1479"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/bop-plus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2577,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/bop-plus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1479\/revisions\/2577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/bop-plus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/bop-plus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/bop-plus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}