In 2025, Technical.ly recognized Kathleen Borgueta for her work with Pivoting Parents.
It’s an organization she started after she was laid off from USAID, shortly after she gave birth.
“I really try to provide a community where people can come as they are. As I mentioned, people sometimes need to breastfeed or pump, or they need to have a kind of, you know, a baby or child with them who doesn’t want to sit quietly through a Zoom conversation,” she said. “So it’s really supposed to be a community where people can either virtually, in person, or we even do hybrid events, can show up as they need and be able to get the job search support that they need.”
On background: In February 2025, notices were sent out in mass mailings “terminating over 90% of USAID’s contracts for humanitarian and development work around the world.”
