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'''What she does now:''' Junior year electronic engineering student & puppy guide dog raiser dogs organization volunteer (She basically studies all day and when she doesn't she trains a puppy, called Lola, to be a future guide dog which will serve a blind person or a child with autism).

'''Contact her about:''' Teaching design thinking, feeling your major is not taking studies to the only major you want to studynext level, studying abroad, training puppies and googling (yes, to google is a science)!

Maria Josefina Martinez (call her Jose) is a University Innovation Fellow and she is a junior year electronic engineering student at Universidad Católica del Uruguay. Once finished this career, she wants to specialize in the Design Biomedical and design Engineering field. She actually lives in Ciudad de la Costa, located&nbsp;on the outskirts of Uruguay's&nbsp;capital, Montevideo.&nbsp;<span style="color: rgb(60, 60, 60); font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">&nbsp;</span>

Josefina feels distinguished by her Vitiligo, a skin condition that determines her skin to have two diferent colours in her face. This motivates her to come along with other people with the same condition. Actually, she is taking forward an awarness campaign about vitiligo in her country, with another UIF [[Camila massa|Camila Massa]], with whom she shares the same skin contition.

This Last year, The University Innovation fellows cohort of her University impulsed the creation of a new community in her campus called "Comunidad innovadora UCU" ("Innovative community UCU") whith the aim of impulsing the same values and ideas that the program searches for, but extendign beyond it. Now the community counts with almost 30 students, serching to improve their innovation and entrepreneurship skills and also to generate ideas to spread this values through the campus. As a fellow, she had also lead Design Thinking workshops to pre-university students, student representatives and business students and was also named UIF Fab 2020 as her two campus fellows [[Fellow:Victoria_Ferrer|Victoria Ferrer]] and [[Fellow:Julieta_Caputo|Julieta Caputo]].

She firmly believes that daring to experiment new things is the best way to learn what is best for each of us. Walking the talk, she is always looking for new things to do, this year raising during 2019 and 2020 she raised a future guide dog puppy as a volunteer. After meeting another girl who did this she got interested and become the [https://ucu.edu.uy/es/los-dias-de-lola-en-el-mullin first student in campus to do it], with a puppy called Lola, form the litter number 12 of the country (yes, it's pretty new in Uruguay!). As its a very new topic, she had to deal with many permitions and she is now pursuing consciousness on this. Nowadays she was given acceses to the "IGNIS convoca" program which gave her the opportunity to produce a documentary film about the importance of guide dogs and the importance of including them in society.

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