I am a mechanical engineer and designer from Northern California. I am currently completing a PhD with the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Broadly I hope to leverage my passions for mechanical design, product design, design methodology, and Indigenous knowledge systems to improve manufacturing systems and to transition these systems to sustainability for future generations. 

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As a designer, I am driven by a will to improve society through thinking differently -- by studying, exploring, and developing new paradigms that will unlock new forms of value and enable us to tackle challenges in new ways. Both my work in additive manufacturing and in blending Native Hawaiian wisdom into manufacturing design accomplish this by exploring new ways to design for specifically digital manufacturing for the former; and by situating new epistemologies and value systems in manufacturing design in the former. I believe that we must seriously consider and pursue these alternative perspectives to radically shift society for the better, especially considering the scale and urgency of climate change.