Julia Jenjezwa

Julia Jenjezwa is the Design Studio Coordinator at the DIT Design Studio in Tanzania. Hailing from Zimbabwe, she is a Mechanical Engineering graduate of Yale University who is passionate about engineering, education and global health. She has worked in engineering education, humanitarian relief and product design. Her teaching experience ranges from teaching object-oriented programming to eight-year old elementary school students to teaching welding and Arduino programming to active duty members of the US Marine Corps. She has applied her engineering skillset to create products to meet needs arising from humanitarian disasters occurring in Nepal, Kenya and the US Virgin Islands.