If you ever have a coffee in Missouri, you owe Becca a thank you. Soon after achieving her life’s ultimate ambition and becoming a certified barista, she turned her kind and tender heart towards training those who came after her. In the 12 months since, she has gone on to establish a pedigree of such elite coffee-makers that many claim her actions have altered the course of caffeine dependence forever.

If she’s not changing history, or attempting to break the world record for how many productive things one human being can accomplish in 24 hours, she’s probably traveling the globe. She’d been to 21 countries by the time she turned 21 years old and is currently trying to make it to her 17th U.S. state. This summer, she interned near her hometown in Chicago for both Northwestern Medicine and the Merit School of Music. While there, she developed strategic plans, pitched stories to media outlets, planned press conferences and even pretended to be passed out on PBS— all of which has irrevocably established her as a young professional. Outside of working as an account executive for MOJO Ad, she likes to spend time water skiing or sailing.