Volunteering
2018 - 2023:
Gender Equity in STEM
In university, I started to get more heavily involved in volunteering. I wanted to give back to the community that encouraged me to go into engineering and stay in engineering.
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I remember being in the gender minority in high school physics classes and technical design classes. It was alienating. Thankfully, I had incredible teachers who encouraged me to stick with it.
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At UWaterloo, I hosted conferences like What's Next / What Now (geared for current undergrad and grad students across the province) and spoke on panels for programs like Go Eng Girl and Go Code Girl (geared for Grades 7 to 10).
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Later in my degree, I started moderating panels and mentoring high school and undergrad students through formalized mentorship programs.
In my last year in university, the most unexpected thing happened.
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Younger undergrad students started coming up to me during events and in the hallways to tell me that I was the reason they were in engineering.
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I was speechless and incredibly touched.
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My heart is so full knowing that we have an amazing next generation of engineers going into industry soon.
2022 - 2023:
Food Sovereignty
In my last couple years of university, I started learning more about food insecurity and by extension, food sovereignty.
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For my final project of my degree, my team and I built a system that took in data from municipal, provincial, and federal government systems and calculated the ideal locations for community gardens based on a number of environmental and social factors.
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We were called SproutMap and we won a number of awards that helped fund our work so we could access the industrial grade software needed to perform our calculations.
2022 - Current:
Children in My Community
I started to branch out my volunteering into the community in 2022. I was on the Emerging Leaders Council for KidsAbility where we helped raise money for kids and families get access to critical supports and I hosted a mini-conference STEM camp for high school kids where they got exposure to STEM and complex problem solving.
In 2023, I joined the board of Food4Kids Waterloo Region. I serve on the Performance & Quality Oversight Committee (previously referred to as the Finance Committee) and the Governance Committee.
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In October 2023, I have worked with UWaterloo Women in Engineering to organize and run a hackathon that brought 75 engineering undergraduate and graduate students together to work on creative ways to reach as many children experiencing chronic hunger as possible.
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In November 2024, I attended Capacity Canada's Governance Bootcamp training so I could learn how to better serve our amazing staff and our community.
