<span classfont face="ng-scope" style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-" size: medium; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;="3"><span style="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; 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; white-space: pre-wrap;">Last yearin the United States. While at Cooper, as a freshmanshe has written for the school paper, played on the relationships I developed with the student body enabled me to try and truly enjoy an electrical engineering course that informed the cryptographic research I did at my summer internship, play college basketball with girls I now call my best friendsteam, and get involved in school politics in started a way club that empowered me and all investigated the future impact of my classmates to work together to impact administrative decisions. I want to continue to collaborate with my classmates to improve our institution blockchains, and perpetuate the ideals of Peter Coopercreated a class about designing higher education policy.</span> <p style="text-align: center;">[[FileCategory:Mary Dwyer .jpgCooper_Union_(2016_Fall_cohort)]]</p><br/>Winter Intensive at Cooper Union Proposal: [https://goo.gl/kDN2lm https://goo.gl/kDN2lm] Other Important Links: [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Cooper_Union httpCategory://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Cooper_UnionStudent Contributors] [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Cooper_Union_Student_Priorities http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Cooper_Union_Student_Priorities] Teamates: [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Christopher_Watkins Christopher Watkins] [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Anushree_Sreedhar Anushree Sreedhar] [http://universityinnovation.org/Giovanni%20Sanchez Giovanni Sanchez] [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Ruchi_Patel Ruchi Patel] [http://universityinnovation.org/Mary%20Dwyer Mary Dwyer] [http://universityinnovation.org/Pranav%20Joneja Pranav Joneja]{{CatTree|Cooper_Union}}