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Cameryn Burnette is a civil and environmental engineering major from Houston, Texas. She aspires for a career in international infrastructure development, focusing specifically on sustainability. Her goal is to enhance quality of life globally by facilitating a transition to sustainable infrastructure in the future in order to provide efficiency, safety, and health to global communities. Burnette’s other career interests include environmentalism, urban planning, wastewater treatment, and architectural design. She will pursue a Ph.D. in environmental engineering after graduating from Howard. Burnette chose to study a STEM discipline because it will position her to help others on a large scale; she has big plans for how she would like to change the world. She chose Howard because of its supportive and welcoming community which empowers and encourages her to explore unorthodox solutions for the global issues she aims to rectify. Burnette’s passion for the environment and drive to spark change have already actualized real-world results: she is the co-founder of Howard’s environmental organization, the Howard University Water and Environment Association