Ryan "Mike" Daza serves as founder and Executive Director of Capitol City Robotics, Inc, a 501(c) non-profit that serves to expose underrepresented students to robotics and programing. He also is founder and Director of Operations at Capitol City STEM, LLC, a robotics and coding educational program that exposes K-12 students to science and technology while inspiring them to pursue a STEM career. He has a vision of the future that is resonant with diversity and inclusion in the science and technology fields. He sees an environment where people of all ethnicities and genders work together to make STEM a safe and productive place to work and make the world a better place to live.  

Mike graduated college from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and received his Masters at the George Mason University in economics. He worked with professors and lawyers gathering data pertinent to legal cases and publishing articles in political economy. He has published several articles and developed new systems in data collection. With the oncoming notion that technology is the future and his two children coming to elementary age, he decided to take the risk of becoming an entrepreneur and founded two STEM based institutions to better prepare his family and those who traditionally have not been given the chance for this future.