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<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.</span>
<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">The UIF Team's main project is the Winter Intensive, but my personal project as a fellow is called "Building Bl</span><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">oc</span><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">ks." </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Building Blocks is a year-long project intensive in which art, architecture, and engineering students work together for Consensus Systems to build a blockchain-based application. </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Intrinsic in every professional project is collaboration between disciplines. Blockchains can be compared to the Internet, which requires user interface and user experience design as well as full-stack development to produce a service with which humans can interact.</span></span></span>
<span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium; white-space: pre-wrap;">Last year, as a freshman, 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 friends, and get involved in school politics in a way that empowered 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 and perpetuate the ideals of Peter Cooper.</span>