Responding on a Macroscopic Scale....One Dent at a Time
Tatenda Ndambakuwa |
TEDxYouth@RVA
• November 2017
How does washing dishes after a childhood of famine lead to an award-winning app? Upon immigrating from Zimbabwe to the United States, Tatenda identified a pressing problem in this country - food waste. In this talk, she thinks about how big problems require microscopic steps.
Tatenda was born and raised in Harare, Zimbabwe. She is passionate about the application of mathematics in technology, policy making, food security and global health. She is a senior at Virginia Commonwealth University majoring in Applied Mathematics and her ultimate goal is to be a data scientist for humanitarian efforts. Tatenda is currently developing "shiri," an application allowing peer to peer communication for African farmers. She has also been involved in End7.org where she worked to raise the awareness of and funding for neglected tropical diseases. In her spare time she is an avid soccer player.