Cindy Xie is an undergraduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. At MIT, she is involved with student government, student advocacy groups, and writing/journalism initiatives. She is co-authoring an upcoming interview profile for MIT Science Policy Review, and she was a participant in the 2020 Executive Visit Days hosted by Science Policy Initiative. Her academic interests, admittedly still very broad, lie at the intersection of the life sciences, social sciences, and design. She is originally from Los Angeles, California.