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Keiana Cavé
Personal details
Born
Keiana Ashli Cavé

(1998-04-14) April 14, 1998 (age 26)
New Orleans, Louisiana
Alma materLusher Charter School
ProfessionScience/Energy/Engineering
AwardsIntel International Science and Engineering Fair, Forbes 30 Under 30, Glamour Woman of the Year
WebsiteOfficial Website

Keiana Ashli Cavé (born April 14, 1998) is an 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 New Orleans, Louisiana.[1] 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] She is a member of the Entrepreneurs Leadership Program and The Kairos Society.[17] She delivered talks at TEDx Barcelona in 2017.[18] and 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 $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. In 2017 Cave was included on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list and Magic Johnson's 32 Under 32 list.[23][24] She was also 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

There has been debate around Cave's ethnic origins.[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

  1. ^ (LSU), Louisiana State University. "Louisiana Students Participate in Intel International Science and Engineering Fair". www.lsu.edu. Retrieved 2018-10-02.
  2. ^ "Lusher Alumna Makes "Top 100 Women in the World" List – Lusher Charter School". www.lusherschool.org. Retrieved 2018-10-02.
  3. ^ "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.
  4. ^ "Meet the Brightest Young Entrepreneurs: 'Be Open-minded and Jump at New Opportunities' - KWHS". KWHS. 2017-01-05. Retrieved 2018-10-02.
  5. ^ Project Lead The Way (2018-02-09), Keiana Cave presenting at PLTW Summit 2017, retrieved 2018-10-02
  6. ^ a b "Closing Diversity Gaps Through Career Learning". SXSW PanelPicker. Retrieved 2018-10-02.
  7. ^ "Bleu". Trust Your Crazy Idea Challenge. 2016-02-20. Retrieved 2018-10-03.
  8. ^ "Intel ISEF 2015 Grand Award Winners | Society for Science & the Public". www.societyforscience.org. Retrieved 2018-10-02.
  9. ^ Chamberlin, Alan. "JPL Small-Body Database Browser". ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Retrieved 2018-10-03.
  10. ^ Cave, Keiana. "Gulf Research Initiative Newsletter" (PDF).
  11. ^ "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.
  12. ^ Keianacave (2015-12-01), My Research Simplified: A Method for the Determination of Aldehydes by HPLC and DNPHi Derivatization, retrieved 2018-10-02
  13. ^ "Project – Van Bael Lab – Panama Research". endotraits.tulane.edu. Retrieved 2018-10-02.
  14. ^ "Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute Newsletter May 2016" (PDF). STRI.
  15. ^ "200 Years of Entrepreneurs – Center for Entrepreneurship". cfe.umich.edu. 2017-05-26. Retrieved 2018-10-02.
  16. ^ "Student of the Year: Keiana Cavé". The Michigan Daily. Retrieved 2018-10-02.
  17. ^ "Kairos". kairoshq.com. Retrieved 2018-10-02.
  18. ^ TEDx Talks (2017-06-19), The Power of Being Obnoxious | Keiana Cavé | TEDxESADE, retrieved 2018-10-02
  19. ^ TEDx Talks (2018-03-13), The Art of Goal Setting | Keiana Cave | TEDxUofM, retrieved 2018-10-02
  20. ^ "TEDxUofM | TED". www.ted.com. Retrieved 2018-10-02.
  21. ^ "Keiana Cavé Forbes 30 under 30, Energy - MIT Bootcamps". bootcamp.mit.edu. 2017-01-04. Retrieved 2018-10-02.
  22. ^ "Keiana Cave".
  23. ^ "Magic Johnson". Magic Johnson. Retrieved 2018-10-03.
  24. ^ "Keiana Cave". Forbes. Retrieved 2018-10-02.
  25. ^ Militare, Jessica. "10 College Women on Activism, #MeToo, and Calling B.S. on Perfection". Glamour. Retrieved 2018-10-02.
  26. ^ "Meet Glamour's 2018 College Women of the Year". Retrieved 2018-10-02.
  27. ^ Staff, Entrepreneur (2018-08-14). "Meet the New Bosses: How These Entrepreneurs Under 20 Are Changing Industries". Entrepreneur. Retrieved 2018-10-02.
  28. ^ "Keiana Cavé". Sports, Hip Hop & Piff - The Coli. Retrieved 2018-10-02.
  29. ^ MTV (2017-03-09), Keiana Cavé is a Superhero for Science | A Woman Did That!, retrieved 2018-10-02
  30. ^ News, ABC. "Video: Teen who created toxin-detecting molecules urges girls to pursue STEM". ABC News. Retrieved 2018-10-02. {{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help)
  31. ^ "48. Keiana Cavé - GC4W Top 100 Women in the World. - gc4women". gc4women. 2017-07-26. Retrieved 2018-10-02.
  32. ^ "These 4 Passionate Teenage Inventors Changing The World Future – The Why Culture". www.thewhyculture.com. 2018-05-10. Retrieved 2018-10-02.
  33. ^ The Color of STEM (2016-01-31), The Color Of STEM Ep#1 Keiana Cave', retrieved 2018-10-02
  34. ^ "IHSJS - Aug 2015 Magazine". www.ihsjs.com. Retrieved 2017-01-25.

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