Leadership
The Leadership team is responsible for managing the chapter's members, projects, fundraising, and external relationships with entities like EWB-USA and Purdue.
Eryk Chazares
President
William Downton
Vice President
Abby Heppleman
Treasurer
Shreya Ranganathan
Archivist
Anita Dinakar
New Member Lead
Anneka Girish
Health Project Manager
Sidney Bauer
Rwanda Project Manager
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Rachel Schwab
Rwanda Associate Project Manager
Pranay Gohel
Louisiana Project Manager
Connor Taylor
Louisiana Associate Project Manager
Keira Keegan
Fundraising Project Manager
Clara de Groot
Fundraising Associate Project Manager
Rwanda: Water
The Rwanda Water team focuses primarily on Hydraulic calculations, mapping pipeline routes in ArcGIS, and performing population estimates to ensure the system being implemented can provide for the community's water usage needs.
Ryan Brown
Co-Design Lead
Elle Case
Co-Design Lead
Molly Dennis
Member
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Nicolas Bustamente
Member
Olivia
Member
Jialin Liu
Member
Sarah Frazier
Member
David Taranowski
Member
Gautam Nambiar
Member
Rwanda: Structures
The Rwanda Structures team works primarily in AutoCAD to assist in structure design such as tanks, erosion control barriers, and tap stands. Additionally, the team works to help mark-up topographic maps and review drawings.
Serena Wei
Co-Design Lead
Elliot Bloom
Co-Design Lead
Jyestha Choudhary
Member
Linda Zheng
Member
Luke Petrucci
Member
Cali Tyler
Member
Sanah Arya
Member
Ariella Nelson
Member
Keaton Chew
Member
Noopura Nambiar
Member
Rwanda: Operations
The Rwanda Operations team focuses on the materials required for a smooth implementation of the project, such as the bill of materials, assessment checklists, pre and post-trip planning, and operation & maintenance manuals.
Mydhili Krishnan
Design Lead
Mallory Kuntz
Member
Harini Sivakumar
Member
Rashi Ravi
Member
Ava Britton-Heitz
Member
Isabel Lubia
Member
Divya Senthurchelvan
Member
Louisiana: Long-Term
The Long-Term Projects Team is starting a feasibility study focusing on how long our partner's area is habitable and what solutions are there, specifically in adaptable/amphibious infrastructure. This feasibility study may help policy change in the future within adaptable housing.
Maria Kufahl
Design Lead
Jake Fisher
Member
Seth Berg
Member
Ava Valerius
Member
Camila Contreras Mendoza
Member
Louisiana: Short Term
The Louisiana Short-Term Projects team is currently working with the tribe on several scalable solutions for their community center, while also designing a couple of smaller structures to be implemented on the tribe's property.
Risha Gupta
Design Lead
Eleanor Sparks
Member
Gabby Loi
Member
Nadira Balasundaram
Member
Aditi Bhatia
Member
Health
The Health team is working on a feasibility study investigating the use of composting toilets in the Louisiana community. The compost from those toilets would be used for non-agricultural purposes in a nearby plant nursery. The trees grown in that plant nursery would then be planted along the coastline to combat coastal erosion.
Vedant Rathi
Co-Design Lead
Gernie Galvan
Co-Design Lead
Rebecca Phelan
Member
Cian McCLamroch
Member
Alex Kim
Member
Isnhara Durocher
Member
Mallika Subramanian
Member
Elsa Thomas
Member
Fundraising: Grants
The Grants team is a critical part of our chapter's team. These students write grant applications to secure funding in order to make our designs a reality. Through technical writing skills and partner communication, the Grants team is able to paint a clear future of how our projects can provide real-world impact to our community partners.
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Mirko Glavan
Design Lead
Emily Creekmore
Member
Gavin Peterson
Member
Lillian Fix
Member
Leon Francis
Member
Mithali Obadage
Member
Fundraising: Alumni & Individual Outreach
The Alumni and Individual Outreach team focuses on maintaining and strengthening our chapter's relationships with existing alumni, sponsors, and other chapter stakeholders. They also help manage internal chapter fundraising events, such as our crowdfunding campaigns.
Ryan Jin
Design Lead
Ella Meyer
Member
Fundraising: Corporate Outreach
The Corporate Outreach team works to maintain corporate sponsorships and seek out new corporate sponsorships in order to continue to fund the chapter's work.
Sam Paul
Design Lead
Jacob Peruski
Member
Sophie Hua
Member
Fundraising: Marketing
The Marketing team is in charge of managing all the chapter's socials including our Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn pages. They also ensure a uniform branding across all EWB Purdue communications including our newsletters, presentations, and flyers.
Cecelia Goracki
Design Lead
Advisors
The Purdue Chapter of EWB operates within Purdue's Engineering Projects in Community Service, or EPICS, program. We are very grateful to have a team of several advisors and mentors through EPICS who help oversee our lab meetings and provide technical and professional advice to students. Additionally, we have two Responsible Engineers in Charge (REICs), who through EWB-USA and sign off on the engineering work that we perform before it is implemented.
William Oakes
Advisor
Susan Khalifah
Advisor
Chris Lombardo
Advisor
Andrew Mix
Industry Mentor
Roger Ward
REIC, Rwanda Projects
Bret Busse
REIC, Louisiana Projects