Our Team

Contact us: team-aquador@umich.edu

Current Team Members

Amanda Margolis - President

Nathan Nakkapalli - Vice President

Emily Pytell

Sarina Bedawid

Cinthya Aros-Caballero

Zafir Maker-Agha

Gregory Koontz

Adele Flores-Noel

Krish Jain

Feng Yi Lai

Lukas Garbacik

Team Alumni

Lauro Sebastian Ojeda

Founder & Former President

Graduated with a B.S.E. (2018) & M.S.E (2019) in Chemical Engineering. Pursuing a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Southern California.

Katherine Lastoskie

Founding Energy System Team Lead

Graduated with a B.S.E. (2019) in Electrical Engineering. Working at the Boeing Company as an Electrical Subsystem Engineer.

Jill Poretta

Founding Design Team Lead

Graduated with a B.S.E. (2019) in Electrical Engineering. Pursuing a Master's Degree in Structural Engineering at Colorado State University.

Jack Pelletier

Founding Purification Team Lead

Graduated with a B.S.E. (2019) in Chemical Engineering. Working at the US Environmental Protection Agency as an Environmental Engineer.

Drew Smiley

Founding Business Team Lead

Graduated with a B.S.E. (2020) in Industrial & Operations Engineering. Incoming Software Developer at Epic Systems.

Camille Latour

Founding Business Team Lead

Graduated with a B.S.E. (2020) in Industrial & Operations Engineering. Incoming Optimized Operations Engineer at 3M.

Rohan Chandran

Founding Filtration Team Lead

Graduated with a B.S.E. (2020) in Enviornmental Engineering. Incoming Environmental Engineering Master's student at Stanford University.

Drew Smiley

2020-2021 Business Team Lead

Graduated with a B.S. in International Studies, Global Environment, and Health in 2021.

Jessica Kahn

Former Design Team Lead and Co-President

Graduated with a B.S.E in Civil and Environmental Engineering (2022)

Jessica Kahn

Former Business Team Lead and Co-President and Design Team Member

Graduated with a B.S.E in Aerospace Engineering (2022)

Maddy Harner

Design Team Member

Graduate of the School of Nursing (2022)

Gus Boyer - Former Business Team Lead

Isabelle Hoekstra - Business Team Member

Emmaline Smith  - Business Team Member

Jeayeon Hwang - Business Team Member

Cavun Beck - Business Team Member

Maddie Horvitz - Design Team Member

Sarah Wholihan - Design Team Member