After graduating with her BS from UC Berkeley, Yael spent seven years working at Genentech, one of the world’s leading biotech companies, developing and optimizing manufacturing processes to bring medicines to patients with unmet medical needs such as auto-immune diseases, cancer, and Alzheimer’s disease. The biotech industry’s massive dependence on clean water drove her curiosity about the overall world water crisis. Her interest quickly developed into a passion and led her to pursue a graduate degree at The University of Texas at Austin.
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