Jhovanna Garcia

"You cannot do all the good that the world needs, but the world needs all the good that you can do".

I used to dream of being an astronaut, a performer, maybe a choreographer... but as I have advanced in my undergraduate degrees, as I've lived through difficult circumstances, as I look at the state of our world -- our climate, our politics, the people on the peripheral of society, of the world -- I feel morally responsible to help in any way I can.

My hardships have given me access to a giant dictionary of problems, my education the tools to see them and combat them on a personal and one day on a societal level.

As a double major, in two ostensibly polar opposite fields, I have taken a little longer to graduate than my peers but I am grateful for this opportunity to deeper cultivate my skills. I'm excited to look at my trajectory; to see where I'm at, where I've come from, and to glimpse at how far I'll go.

In the meantime, I'm here rubbing my hands together wondering which projects to tackle first. The ones resonating the loudest in me are; helping in the commercialization of electric power, resolving resource imbalances in the world on a global level -- maybe initially through an Engineers Without Borders patching, assisting the commercialization of space flight by providing solutions to reducing space junk, and creating a platform where scientists and artists can collaborate to strengthen their own research with high end equipment, an experimental lab for open, playful, curious, and malleable minds.