Nancy Machera

BS Innovation in Society, Engineer Management (Minor), Urban Planning (Minor)

Kenya

Phase

I

Cohort

3

Nancy Machera is a Mastercard Foundation Scholar at Arizona State University. She is pursuing a BS in Innovation in Society with minors in Engineering Management and Urban Planning and is scheduled to graduate May 2018. She is a Resolution Fellow and is passionate about contributing to social change through sustainable innovations. She is the co-founder of Project 7840, a non- profit project that reuses water bottles to build water-harvesting tanks in Malawi. In the summer of 2017, she interned with the county government of Uasin Gishu, Kenya in the Department of Roads, Transport and Public Works where she worked collaboratively with the Kenya Urban Roads Authority. Through this experience, she gained substantial knowledge about the planning and construction of roads. She is currently an undergraduate research fellow in the School for the Future of Innovation in the Society, working on a research project examining the successes and failures of technology in the developing world with a focus on transport systems and infrastructure in Sub-Saharan Africa.