ABOUT US
We are 4 Berkeley Graduate Students that decided that we are sick of just sitting at home and feeling useless. So we decided to look for a way to help our community in this time of fear, isolation, and confusion.
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Nitasha Goyal
Nitasha Goyal is a Masters in Translational Medicine student at Berkeley and UCSF with a background in bioengineering and neuroscience. Prior to grad school she worked in research labs at both UCSF and Imperial college London and is a co-author in two published papers in Nature and Science on neurodegenerative diseases and neurotechnology. The start up she co-founded earlier this year was also accepted into the spring Citris Foundry 2020 cohort. Next fall she will be attending medical school at SUNY Downstate in NY.
"Having many family members and friends working in the healthcare system, I hoped to find another way to help our community through this difficult time. I had countless friends tell me how they wished they could help their grandparents get supplies, but they lived too far away, or that they were sick and couldn't go grocery shopping for fear of being contagious. I wanted to start a platform to make this a little easier for our community members"
Marcel Schaack
Marcel is a Bioengineering graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley focusing on computational health and biology. As part of his research, he is involved in a project with UCSF that tries to leverage machine learning technologies to make patient health record data useable for personalized and predictive medicine. Prior to his graduate studies, he worked as an Associate for Boston Consulting Group. Luxembourgish/Brazilian but raised in Germany, he finds great passion in connecting with people with diverse professional and cultural backgrounds.
"Having lived in 4 different countries, I understand how hard it can be to live in a city with little to know orientation and direct connections in the area that can help you. However, these experiences also made me realize that each and that the power of community is a phenomenal force that can help people that are struggling and create actual change. And currently, in the times of COVID-19, it is more important than ever to create this change and to ensure that we live in a world and community we are proud of ."
Marie Rajon Bernard
Marie Rajon Bernard is a Fulbright French student doing a Master’s in Civil and Environmental Engineering at UC Berkeley, focusing on transportation sustainability. Passionate about social and environmental impact and innovation she actively values intercultural exchange and community involvement. Back in France she led projects for a more sustainable campus and promoted access to scientific studies among girls and students from an underprivileged background.
“Being quarantined in my house I really felt useless and wanted to find a way to help my community. After speaking with my grandmother who told me that she still had to go buy food by herself since our family lives faraway, I started worrying for her and my grandfather. I wanted to do something for people like my grandparents who are at risk but still need to buy groceries, pick up prescriptions… When a friend of mine told me about this platform idea, I directly decided to hop onboard with the project.”
Oluwatoni Adetayo
Oluwatoni Adetayo is a GEM fellow and Masters in Chemical Engineering Product Development Program student at Berkeley. Last year he worked on developing the business model for a medical device project for arthritic patients.
"Serving people has always been a passion of mine. It's actually what inspired me to pursue a career in engineering. When the COVID-19 hit our community, I wanted to help out anyway I could, especially high-risk community members with existing medical conditions like myself who put themselves (or others) at risk every time they go out. When I heard my classmates and neighbors working on this project I immediately signed up to help!"