Resilience, Growth, and Perseverance: Lessons from MicroMasters Learners
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Resilience, Growth, and Perseverance: Lessons from MicroMasters Learners
Thursday, March 5, 2026
9:00AM-10:00AM EST
Question and answer session to follow.
Join us for an inspiring conversation with three extraordinary MIT MicroMasters learners whose journeys demonstrate the power of persistence, ambition, and lifelong learning. They will share what motivated them to begin, how they navigated challenges along the way, and how the programs have shaped their goals, careers, and lives. They will reflect on their learning experience and offer inspiration to those considering or continuing an MITx MicroMasters Program.
Together, their stories illuminate how rigorous online learning, paired with determination and purpose, can unlock new opportunities and generate meaningful, real‑world impact.
About the speakers
Sofia Martinez Galvez is an entrepreneur with a background in development economics and physics. Experienced in designing and implementing programs, leading operations and growing organizations in East and West Africa. Co-founded and led an evidence-based education nonprofit in Uganda, implementing a pilot with 21,000 learners, building organizational systems from scratch and running an impact evaluation. She also managed M&E for a maternal health pilot in Ghana and supported Evidence Action in assessing new programs for scale. She holds a Master’s in Data, Economics, and Development Policy from MIT as a Fulbright Scholar.
Mlen‑Too Wesley is a Liberian-American technologist and economist with over 20 years of experience building and advising organizations across the US and Africa. He holds a masters in economics from MIT and is completing a masters in computer science from Georgia Tech with a specialization in artificial intelligence. Currently a consultant with the World Bank supporting digital transformation projects in East Africa, his career spans software development, public sector advisory, and entrepreneurship. His research focuses on context-sensitive, data-driven systems that leverage AI for information extraction, bridging the gap between research and real-world decision-making.
Viewing limitations in developing markets as opportunities, Satik Movsesyan aimed early to transform Armenia’s capital markets. Even before joining the American University of Armenia, where she earned a BA in Business, Movsesyan identified MIT Sloan’s Master of Finance as the ultimate place to turn that vision into reality. Preparing for the full-time program she pursued the MITx MicroMasters Program in Finance, further becoming a Community Teaching Assistant. Simultaneously building her career in asset management, Movsesyan is now a Financial Analyst at C-Quadrat Ampega Armenia, where she develops tools which advance portfolio management practices, conducts analysis shaping pension assets of hundreds of thousands of future retirees and leads market-development initiatives.