The world wasn't built for women. So they're building one.
Juanita almost lost a kidney.
A doctor put a bandaid on the symptom instead of testing for the cause. Two years later, when the right diagnosis finally came, the damage was permanent. She was already working on women's policy at the UN, already training as a doula, already spending her days inside the gap between what women's bodies are telling them and what the system is willing to hear.
The damage didn't change her direction. It confirmed it.
- MPH, Yale School of Public Health
- Gender and policy, United Nations
- Trained doula
- Two years, three countries, one kidney: the patient experience
Daniela was deep in her career when someone she loves got sick.
For years, her body had been telling her something was wrong. She was brilliant, relentless, the kind of woman who worked through everything. And she knew. But the hours were long, and when she finally made the time to be heard, the doctors weren't listening. By the time anyone took it seriously, it had gotten worse. What comes next is still unknown.
Why, when a woman finally asks for help, does she have to fight to be believed?
- Computer science and applied mathematics, UC Berkeley
- Human Data, xAI
- AI and automation, McKinsey & Company
- Years of watching someone she loves fight to be believed
They met at Berkeley.
Best friends. Both Colombian. Both building, in different ways, toward the same thing. One of them knows the clinic, the policy and the patient. The other knows the data and how to build with it. Between them is the whole problem.
In 2026 they decided to stop building separately.
The body always knows. We make sure she can prove it.
I bring the medicine and the patient. I've sat on the wrong side of the table, and I've studied why the table is built that way. I'm here so that the next woman who says something is wrong is believed the first time.
Juanita Morales OcampoI bring the engineering. I turn what a body is saying into something that can be measured, tracked and proven. I'm here because someone I love fought for years to be believed, and I can build what would have ended that fight.
Daniela Fajardo LondoñoThe House of Maria began the moment a woman's body told her something was wrong.
We're not waiting for the system to change. We're fixing it.
Want to be part of what we're building? Say hello.