Fellow:Mary Dwyer

My name is Mary Dwyer, and I am a mechanical engineering sophomore at The Cooper Union.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. 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 at my summer internship, playing college basketball with girls I now call my best friends, and getting involved in school politics in a way that enabled me and all of my classmates to work together to impact administrative decisions. I want to continue to collaborate with my classmates to improve our institution.