For better or for worse, it seems like this past year has flown by. It’s been about a year and a half since I started working for Lee + Ro in Walnut Creek, CA. We are a small, but growing, water/wastewater engineering consultant firm. I work as a civil project engineer, helping design, coordinating, and managing the design submissions and construction support. Most of my projects are within the wastewater field and are mainly electrically focused, such as generators, motor control centers, switchgears, and power improvements for wastewater treatment plants. I passed my NCEES Civil Engineering PE Exam last spring and hope to be a fully licensed civil engineer in the state of California by May 2022. Outside of work I have continued to volunteer with Engineers Without Borders (EWB). I am still a part of the San Francisco Professional Chapter and have been working on a project in Weledi, Ethiopia. Unfortunately, part of the community has been destroyed by the TPLF in the Tigray War. Once the conflict starts to de-escalate, we can continue our work, which will likely be rebuilding a clinic and possibly a school. In my free time I like to explore, whether it is walking around San Francisco, hiking in Tahoe, or camping in Big Sur, I feel like I need to take advantage of the bay weekend trip potential. A big thank you to MVYouth for all past, ongoing, and future efforts for the betterment of the island community.