Ambassadorial Scholar Isis Mejias, Is Our Program Wednesday

Isis and Bill Davis first met at a Starbucks on Westheimer three years ago when Isis, as a member of Engineers' Without Borders, was seeking funding for a project to bring clean water to the only hospital in Maseno Kenya, a site she had visited on two occasions.

That meeting led to a Rotary Grant for this project which in turn led to a second Global Grant and a Rotary Scholarship which Isis will talk about.

Isis was born in Venezuela and completed high school there when her family moved to Houston. She enrolled for a year at Katy High School to improve her English skills and went on to complete her undergrad degree in Chemical Engineering at the University of Houston.

She then worked for the Shaw Group as a Process Engineer before returning to U.H. to enter the PhD program which, with her Rotary Scholarship,  was later moved to a University in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

She will defend her PhD thesis in Sao Paulo this December.