Experiences

Working alongside a team to map safety standards and expectations for rail systems in Spain and the EU. Communicating in English and Spanish to ensure common understanding of safety standards across all stakeholders.

Madrid, Spain

September 2025 - Present

Selected for prestigious 8-week intensive biomedical engineering program in Uganda. Collaborated with Duke and Ugandan engineering students and local medical teams to determine requirements and areas of improvement in Kampala’s public, low-resource, regional hospitals. Created a multi-probe temperature monitor and display which records the current, high, and low temperatures of up to three babies in a shared incubator, under an $80 budget using only locally sourced supplies.

Kampala, Uganda

June 2024 - August 2024

Recruited and integrated 50 new volunteers in addition to $200,000 in funding for 36 individuals with disabilities within a year to expand the organization and increase collaboration with several national space agencies. Crafted an individually tailored seating chart to accommodate each person’s disabilities and cultivated a detailed flight schedule outlining the order of parabolic movement in the flight. Implemented and affixed 12 groundbreaking disability research projects, devised by the flyers, onto an aircraft, culminating in a zero-gravity flight in Boston, MA

May 2020 - May 2023