Past Travel Grant Recipients
Dai Lin
- SM candidate
- Program in Systems Design and Management
Dai Lin is a master’s student in the Program in Systems Design and Management through the School of Engineering and the Sloan School of Management. Dai’s passion for water-sector issues began during an MIT class on water resource management, taught by former J-WAFS PI Kenneth Strzepek of the Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change. The summer that followed, she worked as a field representative for Saha Global, training women entrepreneurs to launch clean water businesses in northern Ghana. During this experience, she saw a wide variety of challenges intersect to contribute to the water challenges in the area in which she worked. Now her research is focused on how to increase the socio-economic valuation of water to promote better resource management overall.