It’s Thursday, and time for our Global Activism series. Each Thursday we hear about an individual who’s decided to work to make the world a better place.

Robin Semer is a civil and environmental engineer and a member of Engineers Without Borders Chicagoland Professional Chapter.

Dina Najera grew up in Cuetzala de la Reforma, Mexico. She also happens to be a mechanical engineer.  And when some people from the village complained to her about the kids getting sick, the  cows dying and a lack of water, she knew she had to help.

As luck would have it, she found the help she needed at meeting of the Society of Women Engineers.  It just so happened that the President of Engineers Without Borders was giving a talk…