Biography

I grew up in Portland, OR and attended MIT where I earned an S.B. in Engineering, concentrating in Mechanical Engineering and Biomedical Devices. When I entered college in the Fall of 2020 in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic, I wanted to help in whatever way I could, so I began volunteering as an Emergency Medical Technician with MIT Emergency Medical Services. I provided treatment and transport for people who called 911 throughout the Boston area. My experiences on the ambulance revealed to me many of the systemic issues in the emergency medical system, and I began pursuing opportunities to try and fix these issues. I researched novel drug delivery devices for areas with limited surgical capabilities and I started an organization, LifeSaveHer, that seeks to eliminate the gender disparity in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest survival rates. At Cambridge, I’ll be studying health care systems engineering, focusing on pre-hospital trauma systems in low and middle income countries. My goal is to make more equitable and efficient pre-hospital systems that can improve community safety and wellbeing.

Previous Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology Engineering