Driving Impact
Beyond the Lab

My volunteering journey began with the Conejo Free Clinic, supporting events like the Annual Women’s Health Fair to provide quality care regardless of income. I also worked with Many Mansions, tutoring low-income residents in affordable housing programs.

Currently, my focus has shifted to environmental and animal welfare:

• Wildlife Learning Center: Enclosure maintenance and enrichment for porcupines, armadillos, and tortoises.
• Citizen’s Climate Lobby: Promoting environmental sustainability.
• Best Friend’s Animal Society: Advocating for animal welfare.

My goal is to promote early engineering exposure, helping students fall in love with research just as I did.

• SERVES (2019-2024): Improved Veteran retention in STEM through quarterly demos and mentorship.
• SciTrek (UCSB): Designed soil retention modules for primary students to conduct real experiments.
• Letters to a Pre-Scientist: Demystifying the path to becoming a scientist for elementary students.
• College Ambassador: Hosted events introducing students to engineering.

I believe resources should be accessible to all. At the University of Utah, I independently established a Textbook-Share program ensuring free, unlimited access to class resources for students of all income backgrounds.

Global Impact: At the University of Cambridge, I helped develop an inexpensive diagnostic tool for leptospirosis, designing a reagent compatible with silica from beach sand to bypass expensive supply chains.