Fellow:Josellin Largaespada
Josellin Largespada is a University Innovation Fellow Candidate and a student of Physical Therapy coursing her 5th year at UNAN Managua in Nicaragua. As part of her career she has helped in the different hospitals of the country and organizations related to helping people with different disabilities and those who require physiotherapeutic care. Besides that she has been involved into the innovation world since 2016 where she participated for two consecutive years in innovation workshops given by Grand Valley State University where she stood out and participated in a taxi pitch as part of a competition and was elected to be part of the Stanford candidates. It is also part of an innovative project of the faculty where she studies, called Ergovid an ergonomic chair able to provide comfort, welfare and help the environment. This project is about to be released to the market, waiting for sponsors. She also participated in the Latin American Innovation Rally where the project presented by her group Confitec was one of the winners as headquarters.
From a very young age she has been passionate about music, focusing in Marimba which is the national instrument of Nicaragua. She became part of the cultural project of the Flavio Galo Marimba and Guitar School where she teaches from an early age to children, young people and adults. She is also part of a musical band and interactive audiovisual experience called ‘’Momotombo’’ where she is the Marimba player. Josellin enjoys learning new things about music and in the future she would like to learn to play a few string instruments.