Four years ago, I was invited to Comunitario Liderazgo, a leadership teach-in program in rural Honduras. Since then, I have worked extensively in Honduras, engaging in various initiatives and projects in tandem with local organizations such as Funazucar.

As lecturer at the program supporting villages impacted by sugarcane farming, I became involved in grassroot developmental projects and witnessed firsthand the effects of environmental injustice — how unsustainable agricultural practices such as sugarcane monoculture, compounded by gender, racial, and socioeconomic inequality, exacerbate exposure to climate change. This led me to undertake in-depth research on the interconnected nature of societal and environmental challenges.

In this pursuit, I also came to view engineering as a tool to address such complex, interconnected problems. Notably,  I developed a low-cost biofertilizer, known as “SCB Biofertilizer” to serve sustainable alternative to sugarcane waste incineration while simultaneously treating degraded soil to reduce flood erosion.

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