Frances Haugen is an American data engineer and former Facebook employee who became the Facebook whistleblower after she provided the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Wall Street Journal with tens of thousands of Facebooks internal documents in 2021.As a data scientist, Frances has worked for several major techs and social media companies including Google, Pinterest, and Facebook, where she worked till May 2021.While growing up in Iowa City, Frances Haugen excelled as a student and showed a strong curiosity about her world.When Frances was eight years old, she was so worried about widening a neighborhood road that she wrote to U.S. Rep Jim Leach: Please dont let them turn Melrose Avenue into a four-lane road. I couldnt walk home from school because I have to cross Melrose. Sincerely yours Frances Haugen..Frances Haugen was often mentioned in local newspapers as her academic interests grew.In 2002, she graduated from Horn Elementary, Northwest Junior High School, and Iowa City West High School. During her school years, Frances developed an interest in geography and participated in debate and engineering competitions. She also took part in multiple geography bee competitions and won school-level contests. She was so fascinated by geography that as a sixth-grader, she even told a newspaper reporter that geography was a hobby for her. [4]Iowa City Press-Citizen Frances Haugen (center) during her school years.While she was preparing for the Iowa Bee, the statewide geography competition as part of the National Geography Bee, she said, It would be interesting to win, but there are others in two grades above me. Im just really happy to be going..In April 1997, she talked about her career options. She said, Im more into gardening because I want to be a biologist, and grow food to feed the world. Or I want to be a lawyer and then become a politician..In 2001, among seven students from West High School who won first place in a statewide engineering competition, Haugen provided a national ranking to the Junior Engineering and Technical Society at West High School. In this contest, Haugen and her peers answered questions using reference books in physics, chemistry, and biology to win the first-place prize. Frances Haugens photo from her West High school days.Frances Haugen was an active member of her high school debate team. Additionally, she was the captain of the policy team.