E261 Xyla Foxlin: You Can't Control The Audience, Only The Bandsaw

Xyla Foxlin is an award-winning mechatronics engineer and YouTube creator who shares the creativity and joy of engineering through a blend of technical skill, craftsmanship, and art. Featuring everything from proving impossible physics demonstrations to building a viable camper in just weeks, to high-power rocketry and organic chemistry. An advocate for women in STEM, she founded Beauty and the Bolt, a nonprofit now operated by Reinvented Inc that taught thousands of kids to use their first power tool and has worked with AAAS as an IF/THEN ambassador. She is also a voice for the Pilot Mental Health Campaign, advocating for the Mental Health in Aviation Act which would allow pilots to seek mental healthcare without losing their careers. The bill passed in the House unanimously in September as is expected to be introduced in the Senate this fall. Based in Los Angeles, she spends her free time flying her 1946 Cessna 140, backpacking, and building big ideas.