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Bridget Carey is currently an undergraduate student at the University of St Thomas, where she is studying Peace Engineering (major in mechanical engineering and minor in justice & peace studies). Being the first to presupposedly finish the academic program, she saw a change making opportunity. She has been collaborating with the school of engineering and justice and peace department faculty to make the pathway more flexible and provide more resources. Her involvement in the further development of the peace engineering program also led her to become a candidate for University Innovation Fellows. She hopes to add the knowledge and training she gains from UIF to her tool belt of change making!

Bridget's true passion is service for those under-served. Inspired by her Catholic faith, she is dedicated to fighting for the upholding of human dignity particularly in finding solutions to the terrible and debilitating cycles of poverty and hunger that some unfortunately experience.

Other things she is involved with on campus are Catholic Relief Services Student Ambassadors club, coordinating for Students for Justice and Peace club, engineering research, and campus library job. There's never a dull moment at school for Bridget! But she loves all she does. In her free time she enjoys anything creative (crocheting, painting, sketching, writing), cooking/baking, reading, and watching lots of movies.

Her recent accomplishments include presenting a sampling of peace and humanitarian engineering work happening in organizations and universities at "A Culture of Ethics: Engineering for Human Dignity and the Common Good" conference in Fall of 2016. She also is looking forward to beginning her internship with Compatible Technology International in St Paul, MN in February of 2017. Look for her upcoming blog to follow her experiences in the workforce, effecting change everyday.