Dawn Musil
Dawn Musil is studying Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology at The Ohio State University. She has been an avid beekeeper since she was fourteen and realized those skills could be utilized to reach disadvantaged communities when she went abroad with Semester at Sea in Spring 2014. She plans on pursuing medical school after graduating in […]
Hayley Gocha
Hayley Gocha is a student at the University of Colorado, where she expects to graduate with a BFA in Costume Design and Technologies in 2015. In the last few years, her interests have moved toward improving human rights and ending social conflict around the world. She intends to use her design and tech skills to […]
Nora Benson
Nora Benson is a junior in the University of Illinois General Engineering program with a concentration in Design and minors in Innovation and International Engineering. She has a long-standing interest in business development and designing for good and has worked with various organizations on international design projects including assisting with the design and building of […]
Bee the Change
Dawn, Hayley, and Nora will bring beekeeping skills and supplies to economically-disadvantaged people in the United States and beyond. Dawn, an experienced beekeeper, and her team will bring standardized apiary designs that can be built from simple wood and mesh to communities in need of job creation and economic empowerment. Five beehives, with associated equipment […]
Raquel Granados
Raquel Granados is from a community of about 20 houses in La Teja, Honduras. From an early age she was involved in her community as a leader at church. She studied Environmental Technology at Mt. Hood Community College (MHCC) on a SEED (Scholarship for Educational and Economic Development) scholarship sponsored by US-AID and Georgetown University. […]
Sanitary Solutions – Composting Toilets
Raquel’s venture will reduce water pollution and illness by building composting toilets in La Teja Santa Ana La Paz, Honduras. Raquel’s home community, La Teja houses about 20 families. Not a single house in La Teja has a toilet. The community will participate in constructing toilets in each home and the school, and when successful, […]
Gabrielle Wimer
Gabrielle Wimer received her BA in the History, Philosophy, and Social Study of Science and Medicine from the University of Chicago with a minor in Human Rights in June 2016. As a student she served as a researcher in the Department of General Internal Medicine and as a researcher for a project looking at the […]
Joyce Lu
Joyce Lu studied Anthropology and Biological Sciences with a specialization in neuroscience at the University of Chicago. She is especially interested in health and science education and making STEM fields accessible at an early age. She has worked with various groups at the planning, development, and teaching phases of education initiatives in a wide range of fields […]
MealFlour
MealFlour is a social enterprise that trains communities with high rates of chronic malnutrition how to build and maintain environmentally sustainable mealworm farms, and how to turn mealworms into a protein-rich powder. The participants in the trainings can incorporate the protein powder into existing local staple foods or sell the powder in local markets and […]
Elizabeth Frank
Elizabeth Frank is a fourth year at the University of Chicago. She is majoring in the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Science and Medicine, with a specialization in Global Health and a minor in Biology. Elizabeth is a co-founder of MealFlour, a social enterprise to build mealworm farms made from recycled materials that manufacture […]
