Keiana Cavé
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Personal details | |
Born | Keiana Ashli Cavé April 14, 1998 New Orleans, Louisiana |
Alma mater | Lusher Charter School |
Profession | Science/Energy/Engineering |
Awards | Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, Forbes 30 Under 30, Glamour Woman of the Year |
Website | Official Website |
Keiana Ashli Cavé (born April 14, 1998) is an Trinidadian-Indian-American entrepreneur, scientist and public speaker. She received $1.2 million in research funding from Chevron in 2016, who acquired her company in 2017.
Early life[]
Cave grew up in Miami, Florida.[1] She studied at Dwight D Eisenhower Elementary school and Nova Middle School before moving to Louisiana. There, she studied at Lusher Charter High School.[2] She returned to her alma mater in 2017 to deliver the commencement speech.[3] Cave did ballet, track, and cheerleading before dropping those programs to pursue research in nanotechnology.[4] Cave attributes her early interest in engineering to the Project Lead the Way (PLTW) Program, for which she later became a national ambassador.[5][6] In 2014 she won $10,000 in New Orleans Entrepreneur Week's Trust Your Crazy Ideas Challenge hosted by NFL Quarterback Drew Brees.[7]
BP Deepwater Horizon Research[]
In 2015 Cave won second place in the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair in the Earth & Environmental Sciences Category with her research on the BP Oil Spill impact.[8] As a result, NASA and MIT Lincoln Laboratory renamed minor planet "2000 GD136" after her.[9]
She began her research at the University of New Orleans at 15, funded by GOMRI (Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative).[10][11] The research, titled “A Method for Identifying the Photoproducts, Mechanisms, and Toxicity of Petroleum from the Deepwater Horizon by High-Performance Liquid Chromatography and DNPHi Derivatization,” provided a method for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to identify nanotoxins that form in seawater after oil spills.[12] Cave's method later became a spinoff project in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology conducted at Tulane University in 2016.[13] During this time, Cave traveled with her lab to Gamboa, Panama to conduct research with the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute.[14]
Career[]
Cave was a Chemical Engineering student at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor before dropping out.[15] She was named Student of the Year in 2017.[16]
Cave is a member of the Entrepreneurs Leadership Program and The Kairos Society.[17]
In 2017, Cave delivered talks at TEDx Barcelona.[18] More talks followed at TEDx UofM in 2018.[19][20]
Toxin-detecting molecule[]
In 2016, Cave completed the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Global Entrepreneurship Bootcamp[21] and developed an oil spill dispersant molecule,[22] raising US$1.2 million in funding from Chevron for further research. She became the co-founder of Mare, a research initiative dedicated to developing solutions to large-scale problems.[23]
In 2017, Cave was included on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list and Magic Johnson's 32 Under 32 list.[23][24]
In 2018, Cave was named one of Glamour Magazine's 2018 College Women of the Year.[25][26]
Cave was named to Entrepreneur Magazine's 2018 Young Millionaires List, following the acquisition of Mare in late 2017.[27]
Diversity and inclusion campaigns[]
Cave's ethnic origins have been the subject of debate.[clarification needed][28] She has been featured in Diversity Campaigns by MTV,[29] ABC's Good Morning America,[30] SXSW,[6] 100 Top Women in the World List,[31] The Why Culture,[32] and The Color of STEM.[33]
Published works[]
- A Method for Identifying the Photoproducts, Mechanisms, and Toxicity of Petroleum from the Deepwater Horizon by High-Performance Liquid Chromatography, DNPHi Derivatization, and Solar Simulation[34]
References[]
- ^ (LSU), Louisiana State University. "Louisiana Students Participate in Intel International Science and Engineering Fair". www.lsu.edu. Retrieved 2018-10-02.
- ^ "Lusher Alumna Makes "Top 100 Women in the World" List – Lusher Charter School". www.lusherschool.org. Retrieved 2018-10-02.
- ^ "Lusher Charter School Graduate Keiana Cave' Gives TEDx Talk in Spain; Scheduled to be Lusher 2017 Commencement Speaker - Greater New Orleans Collaborative of Charter Schools | GNOCCS". Greater New Orleans Collaborative of Charter Schools | GNOCCS. 2017-06-21. Retrieved 2018-10-02.
- ^ "Meet the Brightest Young Entrepreneurs: 'Be Open-minded and Jump at New Opportunities' - KWHS". KWHS. 2017-01-05. Retrieved 2018-10-02.
- ^ Project Lead The Way (2018-02-09), Keiana Cave presenting at PLTW Summit 2017, retrieved 2018-10-02
- ^ a b "Closing Diversity Gaps Through Career Learning". SXSW PanelPicker. Retrieved 2018-10-02.
- ^ "Bleu". Trust Your Crazy Idea Challenge. 2016-02-20. Retrieved 2018-10-03.
- ^ "Intel ISEF 2015 Grand Award Winners | Society for Science & the Public". www.societyforscience.org. Retrieved 2018-10-02.
- ^ Chamberlin, Alan. "JPL Small-Body Database Browser". ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Retrieved 2018-10-03.
- ^ Cave, Keiana. "Gulf Research Initiative Newsletter" (PDF).
- ^ "Roster of GoMRI-funded Researcher, Students, and Others - Research Project Information System - GoMRI - Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative". research.gomri.org. Retrieved 2018-10-02.
- ^ Keianacave (2015-12-01), My Research Simplified: A Method for the Determination of Aldehydes by HPLC and DNPHi Derivatization, retrieved 2018-10-02
- ^ "Project – Van Bael Lab – Panama Research". endotraits.tulane.edu. Retrieved 2018-10-02.
- ^ "Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute Newsletter May 2016" (PDF). STRI.
- ^ "200 Years of Entrepreneurs – Center for Entrepreneurship". cfe.umich.edu. 2017-05-26. Retrieved 2018-10-02.
- ^ "Student of the Year: Keiana Cavé". The Michigan Daily. Retrieved 2018-10-02.
- ^ "Kairos". kairoshq.com. Retrieved 2018-10-02.
- ^ TEDx Talks (2017-06-19), The Power of Being Obnoxious | Keiana Cavé | TEDxESADE, retrieved 2018-10-02
- ^ TEDx Talks (2018-03-13), The Art of Goal Setting | Keiana Cave | TEDxUofM, retrieved 2018-10-02
- ^ "TEDxUofM | TED". www.ted.com. Retrieved 2018-10-02.
- ^ "Keiana Cavé Forbes 30 under 30, Energy - MIT Bootcamps". bootcamp.mit.edu. 2017-01-04. Retrieved 2018-10-02.
- ^ "Keiana Cave".
- ^ a b "Magic Johnson". Magic Johnson. Retrieved 2018-10-03.
- ^ "Keiana Cave". Forbes. Retrieved 2018-10-02.
- ^ Militare, Jessica. "10 College Women on Activism, #MeToo, and Calling B.S. on Perfection". Glamour. Retrieved 2018-10-02.
- ^ "Meet Glamour's 2018 College Women of the Year". Retrieved 2018-10-02.
- ^ Staff, Entrepreneur (2018-08-14). "Meet the New Bosses: How These Entrepreneurs Under 20 Are Changing Industries". Entrepreneur. Retrieved 2018-10-02.
- ^ "Keiana Cavé". Sports, Hip Hop & Piff - The Coli. Retrieved 2018-10-02.
- ^ MTV (2017-03-09), Keiana Cavé is a Superhero for Science | A Woman Did That!, retrieved 2018-10-02
- ^ "Video: Teen who created toxin-detecting molecules urges girls to pursue STEM". ABC News. Retrieved 2018-10-02.
- ^ "48. Keiana Cavé - GC4W Top 100 Women in the World. - gc4women". gc4women. 2017-07-26. Retrieved 2018-10-02.
- ^ "These 4 Passionate Teenage Inventors Changing The World Future – The Why Culture". www.thewhyculture.com. 2018-05-10. Retrieved 2018-10-02.
- ^ The Color of STEM (2016-01-31), The Color Of STEM Ep#1 Keiana Cave', retrieved 2018-10-02
- ^ "IHSJS - Aug 2015 Magazine". www.ihsjs.com. Retrieved 2017-01-25.
External links[]
- Living people
- University of Michigan alumni
- Women inventors
- American women scientists
- 1998 births
- 21st-century American inventors
- 21st-century American women