Genavive Ramirez

My story

How I found my way into building

I grew up carrying heavy family responsibilities while trying to keep up in school — and when personal loss and academic disruption hit during formative years, I didn't have a clear map for what came next. Entrepreneurship became my way back in: at sixteen I picked up my laptop and taught myself HTML and CSS, then kept going — outside, tinkering, eventually into PCB design — until I fell in love with building things on my own terms.

That path is what led me to start Winged Founders and the Fortune Cookie Foundation, and to spearhead est. in my room — the idea that you don't need a perfect setup to build something real. I want young people navigating hardship to have the guidance and infrastructure I wished I had when I first started running my own social impact initiatives from home.