We are excited to welcome our very first CUNY Youth Ambassador, Farjana Shati.

Farjana Shati studies at CUNY- New York City College of Technology (City Tech), majoring in Mathematics Education. She is an Honors Scholars, Emerging Scholars, and mathematics peer leader at City Tech, where she conducts mathematics workshops for groups of students to build their mathematics skills using different learning strategies. Farjana has a passion in exploring and gaining knowledge in different fields of study. She have participated in different research programs at City Tech, and Hunter College. In addition, she had the privileged to participate in National Science Foundation (NSF) Research Experience for Undergraduate (REU) program at National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) – CREST. Her research study in Geoscience and Remote Sensing were selected to present in the National and International conferences for oral and poster presentations and had won her three awards during poster presentations. She has co-authored a research paper in Geoscience and Remote Sensing, which will appear in 2018 in the peer-reviewed journal Cold Regions Science, and Technology. Farjana wants to be an educator with a vision “to help students build their confidence and positive attitude towards mathematics and STEM education.” She also aspires to work towards women empowerment by reducing world poverty and gender inequalities.