A Decade of Impact, and the Year That Changed What Comes Next

Over the last decade, Basta has built one of the richest datasets of first-generation career journeys in the country with more than 8 million data points. Founder & CEO Sheila Sarem reflects on our evolution into a tech nonprofit, scaling to support 80,000+ students on the Seekr platform, and why embedding into regional ecosystems is our next chapter of impact.