Sanjana Subramaniam received bachelor’s degrees in bioengineering and chemistry in 2019 from Temple University before matriculating to Northwestern University (NU), where she is a PhD student in mechanical engineering. Her work centers around understanding the physics of electrospinning, a manufacturing process that can create sustainable solutions in medicine, nanotechnology, and energy storage. In addition, she has collaborated with other NU departments to create solutions for wound healing and improved water remediation. In the future, she aspires to address critical global issues through emerging technologies. As director of academic support and development with the Northwestern Prison Education Program (NPEP), she assisted in writing two successful grants (one in the amount of $1M), which, in part, were used to purchase laptops for incarcerated students at Statesville Correctional Center. Recently, her work resulted in 16 Statesville students becoming the first inmates ever to earn undergraduate degrees from a Top 10 university. Subramaniam single-handedly led the expansion of NPEP to Logan Correctional Center, a women’s prison, by organizing a mentorship program that pairs incarcerated students with NU students for academic and wellness support. As graduate student chair of the DEI Committee, she worked to identify discrimination, discuss its impact, and determine the best ways to address it. She plans to infuse the core values of curiosity, creativity, growth, independence, and excellence into her role as a future engineering faculty member.