I am a fifth year architecture student at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. I am working toward a Bachelor of Architecture, with a minor in Science, Technology, and Society, an area of study concerned with the impacts that science and technology have on society and the environment, and dually, how society and the environment are vital to the development of science and technology. I am currently engaged in a year-long thesis project examining the issues facing extreme urban expansion in Mexico City, with the aim to present a system for sustainable urban growth in the future. My goal is to combine my technical and conceptual education in architecture with my interests in social, cultural, and environmental issues to develop and help implement appropriate design solutions to humanitarian crises around the world.