I have been a member of the EWB CU Rwanda team since my first semester of college in Fall 2020. During my time on the team, I have held a variety of roles, including as a project manager for the Rwanda team and as president of the chapter. This page will act as a timeline of my involvement with the team and showcase some of the projects I've worked on.

During my first year with the team, we met exclusively online due to Covid-19 restrictions. Despite the challenges of remote work, I helped the team successfully implement its 6th rainwater catchment system in Northern Rwanda. I learned a lot about the organization and the team's design, and served as the team's liaison to the chapter board in Spring 2021.

During the spring and summer of 2021, I led a design sub-team in conducting remote upgrades to the previous 6 rainwater catchment systems the team had built. We upgraded all prior first flush, leaf catchers, and tap stations and extended one of the systems to a nearby house to increase the volume of water collection there. I was responsible for sending our community partners designs with budgets and itemized lists of required materials for each upgrade.

For the next year and a half, I led the EWB Rwanda Team as its project manager. During this time, we designed and implemented our seventh rainwater catchment system in the community of Kadahenda, Rwanda in the Kimonyi Sector. During the 2021-2022 academic year, the team designed, planned, and successfully implemented this project. In July 2022, I lead a travel team of four students to travel to Rwanda to participate in the system's implementation, as documented below and at our team's blog.

Assuming leadership roles at the chapter level of EWB has allowed me to engage with the chapter's other two projects in Nepal and Guatemala and have a larger impact. For the 2022 calendar year, I served as the EWB CU Chapter Vice President. I was responsible for chapter-level events and programming, as well as various administrative tasks and acting as a liaison between our student chapter and EWB-USA, the CU Boulder administration, and our other partner organizations.

In Spring 2023, I took on the Chapter President role. This was a one-semester term so that I could oversee the transition of the board to new leadership and help the chapter fully recover from Covid impacts, while having time to take on a drum major role in the marching band in the fall. Chapter-level leadership has allowed me to organize chapter-wide technical and leadership workshops as well as social events, while also providing oversight and support to all three of the chapter's teams.