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One Rises and Pulls the Other Up: Mônica da Cruz Silva on the Yardstick Women Use to Measure Themselves

Mônica da Cruz Silva

Solutions Architect, Founder of KAURA

Mentor · Women in Tech · 23 October 2026

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Mônica da Cruz Silva, a solutions architect and the founder of KAURA, mentors through the Women in Tech Global programme. In her spotlight she talks about spotting bridges for the women she mentors, the wrong yardstick many women use to measure themselves, and why a good mentor knows when to let go.

“A mentor’s job is not to hold on. It’s to prepare her for the moment she won’t need to come back.”

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This story was first published on the Women in Tech mentoring blog.

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