Community

Outside the simulations

Mentoring and organizing with the African Graduate Student Association, a few competitions, and the conferences where the work gets argued over.

World Bank Group Youth SummitFinalist · Washington DC · 2026

World Bank Group Youth Summit

Pitching Sankofa Fresh, the farmer-to-buyer marketplace I co-founded and build the data and AI side of. One of six finalists out of more than 700 teams from 150 countries.

People's Choice AwardOutstanding Impact and Community Recognition

People's Choice Award

The award that came out of that summit was the one voted by the room, which I did not expect and still think is the better one to win.

World Bank Youth Summit · certificateAward recipient

World Bank Youth Summit · certificate

Certificate and prize from the same summit.

MUC2 molecular dynamicsPresenter · AIChE Annual Meeting, Boston 2025

MUC2 molecular dynamics

Presenting the full-length MUC2 mucin simulations and the bile salt interactions we measured from them. Explaining a 3-million-atom system to a room in twelve minutes is its own skill, and I am still working on it.

AIChE Annual MeetingPresenter · Northeastern University

AIChE Annual Meeting

At the American Institute of Chemical Engineers annual meeting, representing the lab.

AGSA career development panelAcademic & Networking Chair · organizer and moderator

AGSA career development panel

I organize and moderate these panels for the African Graduate Student Association. The useful part is rarely the talks; it is the twenty minutes afterwards when people ask the question they were too embarrassed to ask in the room.

African Graduate Student AssociationAcademic & Networking Chair · Mentorship Chair

African Graduate Student Association

Mentorship and community work with African graduate students at Northeastern, including a webinar run with the Office of Global Services.

MOAD NextGen pitch competitionWinner · $500 prize

MOAD NextGen pitch competition

Won the Massachusetts Organization of African Descendants NextGen pitch competition.

In the SimBioSys LaboratoryNortheastern University

In the SimBioSys Laboratory

Where the simulations actually get built, run, and then re-run because the first setup was wrong.

Festival of Genomics & BiodataDelegate · Boston

Festival of Genomics & Biodata

Two days of genomics and biodata talks, mostly to find out what the experimental side is measuring that I should be simulating.

With the President of Massachusetts Life SciencesIndustry engagement

With the President of Massachusetts Life Sciences

Massachusetts Life Sciences works on the policy and funding side of the state biotech sector, which is where a lot of this research eventually has to land.

Harvard Business SchoolBoston, MA

Harvard Business School

I am interested in how lab results turn into products, which is a different problem from the one I am trained for.

Off the clockCommunity

Off the clock

At the rink with friends from the program. I also cook a lot and play chess badly.