Meet the Scholars
María José Garcia Rivas, '24
Tegucigalpa, Honduras
Meet María José (Majo)
María José (Majo) was previously President of Drexel’s Undergraduate Student Government Association and is a Drexel Global Scholar. She has traveled to Ghana as a Dornsife Global Development Scholar, where she learned about health and environmental infrastructures, and conducted bilingual research with the aim of improving pediatric care while on co-op at the University of Pennsylvania.
Nadia Jeon, '27
New York, New York
Meet Nadia
Nadia has taught English to students in both New York City and South Korea and volunteered as a Korean translator at a nonprofit, which awarded her its Gold President’s Volunteer Award. The executive secretary for the Drexel Biddle Law Society, she has also collaborated with students from a Scottish university as part of a Drexel Global Classroom.
Alyssa Kemp, '25
Cavalier, ND
Meet Alyssa
Alyssa has enacted her passion for community-centered sustainability research as a volunteer with Solidarity Engineering and as a STAR Scholar and Velay Fellow, having completed a project on heat disparities within Philadelphia. An Aspire Scholar and Community-Based Project Assistant at the Lindy Center for Civic Engagement, she also attended the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference via the Office of Global Engagement.
Charlotte Klass, '25
Diamond Point, NY
Meet Charlotte
Charlotte is a special education case manager with a passion for fostering inclusive environments who has led projects promoting diversity, equity, inclusion, and social-emotional learning in educational spaces over the past five years. A part-time graduate student at Drexel, she previously obtained an M.S. in Early Childhood Special Education from Syracuse University and a certificate in Social Emotional Learning from Rutgers University.
Ranjini Mahalanobish, '24
Kolkata, India
Meet Ranjini
Ranjini spent most of her childhood learning about nonprofit work to support the underprivileged societies of India; since then, she has learned about her passion for leadership and influencing people on a larger scale. In addition to planning culturally themed events as a Culture and Discovery Committee member of the Campus Activities Board, she has researched cognitive behavior in eSports since her first year at Drexel and plans to continue expand her knowledge in that field.
Hailee Mayer, '26
Swarthmore, PA
Meet Hailee
Hailee started as an undergraduate biomedical engineering student at Drexel and now is working towards her PhD at the University. Through her time volunteering with Next Play Basketball, Philadelphia Youth Basketball, and Girls on the Run, she has developed a passion for service and a commitment to motivating others to get involved.
Jessica McAtamney, '24
Philadelphia, PA
Meet Jessica
Jessica is an educator who serves as the Vice President of the Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture and the Communications Chair for the Philadelphia Area Peace Corps Association. She has worked for more than 20 years at the School District of Philadelphia, where she currently serves as a principal and social work supervisor.
Joe McBride, '24
Montclair, NJ
Meet Joe
Joe is the vice president of the Biddle Law Society and a LeBow BRIDGE scholar. His experiences in marketing and attorney recruiting across three co-ops have given him the opportunity to conduct real-world market research, coordinate brand partnership opportunities and apply SEO best practices.
Sarah Malik, '24
Philadelphia, PA
Meet Sarah
An NSF Graduate Research Fellow, Sarah was Drexel’s first attendee of the Rising Stars in Mechanical Engineering workshop, hosted by Stanford University, and is the first graduate student on the IEEE Computer Society’s Publication Board. A member of the College of Engineering Dean’s Student Leadership Council, she has led initiatives around investigating perceptions of Drexel and is an active advocate of academic support for graduate students.
Anh Nguyen, '26
Hanoi, Vietnam
Meet Anh
Anh is the founder of Eco Peace Wildlife, a wildlife conservation organization, and a project manager for Solar for Change, a start-up company that empowers farmers in Vietnam, to switch to solar energy. As a Drexel Global Scholar, Anh contributes to global leadership efforts and helps foster international community ties at Drexel. Furthermore, Anh has completed an internship at CurveBeam AI, where he engineered crucial software enhancements for medical devices deployed in major clinics in the United States.
Satvik Tripathi, '26
Lucknow, India
Meet Satvik
An AI practitioner with research focused on building machine learning techniques, Satvik draws on his computer science curriculum and psychology minor to take an interdisciplinary, humanistic approach to data analysis. He has been a leader in communities like Philly Codefest, Drexel’s Society of Artificial Intelligence and Biomedical Undergraduate Association while maintaining research roles at Harvard Medical School and UPenn’s Perelman School of Medicine.
Ali Youssef, '24
Long Island, NY
Meet Ali
Ali enriched his data analysis and research experience in co-ops at Merck, where he developed dataflows to optimize manufacturing processes, and Johnson & Johnson, where he derived mathematical models using Python and visualized experimental data in Tableau. He has also honed his leadership and communications skills as a teaching assistant for UNIV 101 and a former peer mentor in his school.