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Ajani Smith-Washington is a physics and economics major from Houston, Texas. His career interest is to pursue a Ph.D. in theoretical physics and leverage novel computational techniques to simulate many-body electron systems. Since arriving at Howard University, he has pursued his intellectual interests through research internships at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, where he used data from the LADEE satellite's ultraviolet-visible light spectrometer to study the lunar exosphere, and Columbia University, where he worked on passive daytime radiative cooling paints for outdoor roof coatings. Smith-Washington has participated in community organizing projects with Organizing for America and Howard's Thurgood Marshall Civil Rights Center. He recently completed an internship with the Economic Analysis Group in the Antitrust Division of the US Department of Justice.