Meet our spring 2019 EQUIP scholars

Alexa (Bella) Barrientos

Bella is a fifth-year Sociology and Psychology major with a concentration in social work. She plans to pursue a Master of Social Work and hopes to become a therapist, eventually opening a private practice and returning to academia as an educator. Her interests include working with veterans and military families, justice-impacted individuals, transitioning young adults, and new parents.

Aktan Azat

Aktan is a fourth-year Computer Science & Engineering major focused on building functional machine learning tools, particularly in natural language processing. His recent work includes extracting insights from medical records, identifying patterns in brain signals, and experimenting with movement synthesis for animated characters, with a strong interest in connecting curiosity to real-world impact.