Leila Merzenich

Leila Merzenich is passionate about mechanical engineering. She is involved in issues of gender and sexual identity in her community, as well as determining how to effect political change from within the bubble of the Bay Area in a divided nation. Her goals for the year are to get better at Spanish, obtain a broader perspective, and to generally get out of her comfort zone. "As soon as you start to make room for the parts that aren't you out gets harder to bloom in a garden of love."- Sara Bareilles