Sarika Kapadia

Sarika Kapadia is a BS student in Cell Biology and Genetics who served as a 2022 UMD Do Good Fellow to build an elementary school library/computer lab in a highly vulnerable community in Lusaka, Zambia. She is currently working at an on-campus microbiology lab seeking to research a natural and sustainable water filtration method to fight against waterborne pathogens in developing countries, and is the Water Sanitation sub-project team lead for Engineers Without Borders Nicaragua. This summer, she looks forward to researching Malaria and subsequent treatment at the University of Maryland Medical School as a UM Scholar. Sarika hopes one day to become a Doctor/researcher Without Borders.