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Camila remained actively involved in the UIF community after completing the program, collaborating with other cohorts, mentoring new fellows, and sharing her experiences across different universities. Together with her 2023 cohort at UTEC, she developed a project aimed at reducing the dropout rate among first-year students by helping them adapt more effectively to university life and strengthen their sense of belonging.

After attending the 2024 UIF Meetup in the Netherlands, she was offered the Emerging Leaders in the Americas Program (ELAP) scholarship. In 2025, she completed a research internship at the University of Alberta in Canada, where she contributed to a project focused on expanding access to safe drinking water for underserved communities. This experience strengthened her commitment to developing sustainable engineering solutions that could be adapted to the Peruvian context. Upon returning to Peru, Camila translated those learnings into her bachelor's thesis, designing an autonomous water treatment device that complemented the technology she had worked with in Canada. The system was created to provide remote communities with access to safe drinking water without requiring large-scale infrastructure, electricity, or specialized personnel, helping bridge the gap in access to clean water through an affordable and scalable solution. In 2026, this work received an Innovation Award in Environmental Engineering from the "Colegio de Ingenieros del Perú".