After graduating from Texas Tech University with a degree in early childhood education and mathematics, Samantha Villanueva-Meyer spent the beginning of her career teaching math and science to elementary and middle school students at Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District just outside of Houston. She eventually left teaching and began work at Rice University developing science and math curricula structured around STEM initiatives for K–12 students. While still working in education, she volunteered with foster families and worked with several lawyers over the course of three years in Houston. She says that experience inspired her to become a lawyer and go to the University of California Hastings School of Law. During her second year in law school, while working as an intern at Stamos Capital Partners, she met Ron Johnson and Tom Suiter, the founders of the Menlo Park, California-based personal commerce startup Enjoy. She was hired as the company’s first lawyer after graduating in 2015. Now, Villanueva-Meyer is the chief legal officer at Enjoy, where she leads a small legal department and encourages her team to think outside of the box to better serve the business.
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