Eliza Coleto (they/she) is a recent Spring 2025 graduate with a Bachelor's of Science (B.S.) in Bioengineering and a minor in Ethnic Studies from the University of California, Berkeley.

Previously, Eliza was a Manufacturing Engineering Intern at Silk Road Medical, Inc. (acquired by Boston Scientific Peripheral Interventions) for six months, where she designed and implemented toolings and fixtures to improve production, composed test protocols for tool qualification and process validation, assisted with in-process inspection, and aided with the optimization of production parameters using DOEs.

Moreover, Eliza was a Conservation + Innovation Fellow through the Fung Fellowship at UC Berkeley's Fung Institute for Engineering Leadership for the 2023-2024 school year. Within their studies, they collaborated on group research projects to manufacture BioMEMS microfluidic devices and optimize size and stability of oil-in-water droplets for Professor Steven Conolly’s Lab.

With a love for tinkering around in design spaces, their passions include human-centered engineering design, biomedical technology, and ethical engineering. They strive with intentionality to design engineering solutions that put people and patient health as the top priority.

Beyond their studies, Eliza has embraced creative freedom in the Berkeley Dance Community (BDC) with Main Stacks Dance Team and TrueLement and Filipino organizations at UC Berkeley with Pilipinx American Alliance (PAA) and Pilipinx Cultural Night (PCN).

To think constellationally is to internalize that scientific, social, economic, and environmental issues are all intertwined. Eliza is devoted to integrating ethical solutions in their design and engineering work in areas such as:

• rapid prototyping of healthcare solutions for low-resource communities

• environmental barriers and design thinking

• climate change, imperialism, rising technology