Halley Suarez

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About Halley Suarez

Hello, I’m Halley! If you’re also interested in making a positive, concrete difference in this world, I’m sure we’ll be great friends. In the short term, I am a fourth year civil engineering student at UBC looking to specialize in transportation engineering. In the long term, I aim to improve accessibility and equity through thoughtful transportation design in urban areas - the places that we call home. For this, I have taken on a diverse set of roles, both professionally and extra-curricularly. In the summer of 2022, I worked as an undergraduate student research assistant for the UBC Department of Civil Engineering, researching Northern Canadian road transportation. In my time so far, I found myself burning to know more and more about the dynamic processes - such as weather and socioeconomic forces - that govern the quality of transportation in subarctic and remote areas. I have also learned more about what it takes to effectively contribute to traditions of knowledge spanning decades, from proper literature review to spreadsheet management and data governance. I have been an active member of the UBC Steel Bridge student design team since 2020. There, I’ve had the honour of learning more about leadership in community-building and effective liaising with a great community of over 60 people - and counting. For the 2022 Canadian National Steel Bridge Competition, I directed and edited a film to help shed light on the hard work of our team; check it out here: https://youtu.be/C5Nw2djL8ls In a diverse yet divided world, I believe it is imperative to properly consider the full breadth of the human experience in policy and design. This belief spreads into my hobbies, from 3D printing products I’ve designed with the user in mind to creating coursed menus for gatherings with friends. To whoever may be reading this, I wish you luck on your journey in helping make the world a better place! And if I may, I’d love to hear more about what you do - please don’t hesitate to connect!