 The New Colombo Plan scholarship has had a huge impact on my career today. I now work for Telstra, an international business, where I'm able to leverage my cross-cultural skills for their business. It's allowed me to come back to Australia and seek out really great opportunities within the field. It's really opened up doors for me to network within Australia to help build those links overseas. It's made me want to tell the Australian story in the region and to collaborate internationally. It's reaffirmed my passions and aspirations to work abroad and become an aspiring leader in engineering in Southeast Asia.