Finance x Engineering 
Driving Impact and Innovation.

My commitment to addressing global challenges began early, shaped by lived experiences across Kenya and South Africa. At ten years old, a warning to avoid unboiled water during travel sparked a simple but lasting question: why is access to something so essential unequal? That question has guided my academic and professional path ever since. Years later, Cape Town’s “Day Zero” water crisis turned that curiosity into urgency. Watching communities line up for rationed water showed how climate change and infrastructure failures burden underserved populations. These experiences cemented my resolve to pursue solutions that are technically sound and socially responsible. My interest in engineering deepened through early exposure to innovation and leadership. At Yale’s National Student Leadership Conference, I worked on a prototype to extract potable water from air. This experience showed engineering’s potential to address real-world problems and inspired my pursuit of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. As an undergraduate at NYU Tandon, I was selected for the Global Leaders and Scholars in STEM (GLASS) honors program, where I focused on the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal 6: Clean Water and Sanitation. Through research, leadership, and learning, I explored waterborne disease prevention, inequities in water access, and the broader relationship between climate change and public health. The program reinforced my belief that global challenges demand interdisciplinary, systems-level solutions. Alongside my academic work, I sought leadership roles that translated values into action. As President of the National Society of Black Engineers and the American Institute of Chemical Engineers at NYU, I led initiatives that expanded access to professional development, strengthened community partnerships, and fostered inclusive spaces where students could thrive. For me, leadership is rooted in service and in creating environments that enable collective success. My global perspective has been shaped through international experiences, including studying sustainable business practices in Indonesia, volunteering in Mexico, and participating in service-oriented projects abroad. These experiences taught me that durable solutions must be culturally informed, locally grounded, and developed with the communities they serve. Recognizing finance as a lever for real-world outcomes, I pursued graduate studies in Financial Engineering and have leaned into finance to turn big commitments into measurable action. In NYU Tandon’s Dean’s Office, I manage campus-wide initiatives to support over 7,000 engineering students, which has strengthened my thinking on operational excellence: ownership, attention to detail, clear communication, and decisions that deliver results. I am especially drawn to work at the intersection of people, products, and numbers. This spring, I’m building a Monte Carlo simulation platform with SERVUS (Dashporter Inc.) to forecast municipal revenue under different economic and policy scenarios, because good modeling isn’t just technical; it shapes how communities plan confidently in the face of uncertainty and pursue more equitable outcomes. By bridging engineering and finance, I aim to advocate for responsible, equitable decision-making that supports resilience and long-term impact. Guided by Ubuntu: the philosophy that “I am because we are”, my work is grounded in interconnectedness, compassion, and the belief that progress is most meaningful when it is shared.