Irene Katana currently has a research master's appointment at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the department of civil and environmental engineering. She also attended UW Madison for her undergraduate degree and recorded her bachelors in biological Systems engineering with an emphasis on the natural resources. She is also a certified yoga instructor and has been teaching for two years. In her research role she studies bacteria that accumulate phosphorus when cycled through certain conditions.  Her goal is to use biological and environmental engineering, and yoga knowledge to provide a better quality of life to everyone but especially people of color. In her free time, Irene enjoys working out, yoga, painting, reading, hiking, camping and playing guitar.

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