<span classfont face="ng-scope" style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-" size: medium; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);="3"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: pre-wrap;">My name is Mary Dwyer, and I am is a mechanical engineering sophomore student at The Cooper Union, where she also serves on the Board of Trustees.Mary is interested in using engineering principles to solve complex problems related to</span></spanfont><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); white-space: pre-wrap;">My personal and professional interests involve designing decentralized ecosystems that address existing healthcare and legal identity problems as a means to protect and empower individuals. I am focused on learning about and educating my peers on cryptographic systems and blockchain technology to efficiently approach these global issues. socioeconomic inequality </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: pre-wrap;">Last year, as a freshman, the relationships I created in with my peers led to me trying and truly enjoying an electrical engineering course that informed the cryptographic research I did United States. While at my summer internshipCooper, playing college she has written for the school paper, played on the basketball with girls I now call my best friendsteam, and getting involved in school politics in started a way club that enabled me investigated the future impact of blockchains, and all of my classmates to work together to impact administrative decisions. I want to continue to collaborate with my classmates to improve our institutioncreated a class about designing higher education policy.</span>[[Category:Cooper_Union_(2016_Fall_cohort)]][[Category:Student Contributors]]{{CatTree|Cooper_Union}}