Reshama Shaikh, a statistician and data scientist based in NYC, has been involved with the Neo4j community for three years. She got introduced to graph databases through an event organized by Neo4j's developer advocate group and was impressed by their power in capturing complex relationships between data points. After attending GraphConnect 2018, she wrote an article on the benefits of graph databases and won a gold medal blog award. Shaikh has used Neo4j hands-on and learned about its importance in defining data relationships. She currently organizes two meetup groups, Data Umbrella for underrepresented persons in data science and PyLadies for advancing women in Python. Shaikh sees graph technology as an increasingly important tool in the future of data science, with Neo4j working on a new user interface to make it more accessible to beginners.