About Us

Our team is made up of students, staff, and off-campus mentors. We have extremely dedicated students from both the undergraduate and graduate schools, as well as amazing professional mentors and faculty advisors. Our membership is open to all those with a similar commitment to success, as well as the imagination and dedication to bring our projects to fruition. 

 

What we do:

On campus

  • Project-specific technical training and workshops for all members, lunch talks, research presentations
  • Bringing  in campus-wide events such as Water Week and the Public Health Coalition lunch speaker series
  • Member of Yale Public Health Coalition and Dwight Hall Center for Public Service and Social Justice

Worldwide

  • 2023-2026: Machacamarca, Bolivia
  • 2017-2023: Naitolia, Tanzania
  • 2012-2017: Roh, Cameroon
  • 2006-2012: Kikoo, Cameroon
  • 2005-2006: El Rosario, Honduras

Our parent organization EWB-USA is a registered 501(c)3 non-profit with over 250 student and professional chapters. Since its inception at the University of Colorado in 2000, it has grown to more than 350 projects and 12,000 members nationwide.

 

Members

Student Officers

President

Zoe Martonfi (she/her)

Kevin Su (he/him)
Outreach Leads

Helen McCormack (she/her)

Brennan Ujda (he/him)

Health & Safety Lead

 Tyler Matukonis (he/him)

 
Financial Lead

Riyashi Varia (she/her)

 
Treasurer

Jah Mubalama (she/her)

 
Project Leads

Anne Nguyen (she/her)

Aarav Gandhi (he/him)
Media Lead

Korinne Strausbaugh (she/her)

 

Faculty Advisor: 

Jordan Peccia, Chemical & Environmental Engineering

Bio: https://sites.google.com/yale.edu/peccialab?pli=1

Professional Mentors:

David Sacco

Bio: Dave is a civil engineer in New Haven, Connecticut.  His path to EWB ran through Gabon (Peace Corps), Sri Lanka (UN Volunteer), Kosovo (ADRA), Nigeria (Partners for Development) and the DR Congo (IRC).

Fun Fact: I can count to ten in Bateke.