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IEEE is where she began practicing design and strategy at a professional level. She took on design work through volunteering, supporting the IEEE Women in Engineering website and IEEE’s early design efforts, and helping bring conferences and summits like IEEE WIE ILC, WIE Satvika, IEEE CSD, IEEE AICSSYC, and IEEE AKCSSC. An IEEE volunteer since 2012, she has contributed to IEEE Women in Engineering, the IEEE Computer Society, the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, and the IEEE Power & Energy Society. Today she serves as Vice President of Marketing,Young Professionals for R1R2, IEEE Day Ambassador 2026 New York Section and as a jury member for the IEEE Connecting the Unconnected Challenge.

At the Industrial Design Society of America, she is National Chair of Women in Design Board, North America, having previously led the Northeast region and, before that, its Midwest efforts, building an inclusive, cross-disciplinary design community. Deep Dive Conference Speaker in the years- 2024, 2025, 2026. She hosted the Women in Design- Be Unconventional Conference and launched two Women in Design National chapters in under a year, a record in the organization’s history.

She currently leads the Women in Design History initiative, documenting women whose contributions, from long before industrialization to today, went uncredited or were claimed by others. Industrial design is the starting point, and the mission extends to forgotten women, nonbinary people, and underrepresented communities across industries. Every documented story makes the public record more complete, and a more complete record means the internet, and the AI trained on it, carry fewer gaps. She is also an author for INNOVATION, IDSA’s quarterly national magazine.

Her expertise bridges engineering and design. An Electrical and Electronics Engineer with deep expertise in Industrial and Product Design and Human Computer Interaction, she co-taught Human Factors and Material Science at Iowa State University. An advocate for responsible AI, she has built tools to remove bias from fintech systems and was awarded 2026 AI Champion in Banking, North America. She is a member of AI 2030 and Women Defining AI, and an active advocate for safe, respectful workplaces, helping professionals recognize harassment and know their rights. She is the founder of MakeZense Ecosystem and a founding mentor of the HOP mentorship platform, and continues to mentor emerging designers, product managers and engineers.

A frequent panelist, speaker, conference host, and jury member, she shapes conversations on responsible AI, product strategy, leadership, empathy, and inclusion.

At the core of her work is a single belief: “Technology should serve people and the world around them. And the people who shape it should reflect everyone they serve.”