Sofia Martinez has a B.S in Environmental Engineering from Drexel University. For her senior design project, she produced a sustainable landfill management strategy for a retired impoundment formerly belonging to DuPont, aiming to reduce the flow of groundwater through an unlined landfill and prevent leachate containing organic material from mobilizing naturally occurring arsenic in the soil. At Drexel’s chapter of Engineers Without Borders, she worked on multiple domestic and international projects, including a pipe replacement project in Ecuador and a latrine design/implementation project in Guatemala. She also worked as an intern on the start-up of the Back River Wastewater Treatment Plant Headworks Project in Baltimore, assisting with the electrical and mechanical start-up of equipment and creating Operating & Maintenance manuals for on-site equipment. She has additional internship experience consulting on projects for the Philadelphia Water Department’s division of green stormwater infrastructure (GSI), assisting in the design of sustainable sewer retrofits for the city of Philadelphia’s Green City Clean Waters plan in order to address its long-standing issue with combined sewer overflows.