Mennaallah Abotaleb (she/her) is an Architectural designer, a MArch graduate student at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, an activist for the Middle East, and an ICLI teacher. Her interest in the political world has driven her curiosity and research. As the daughter of two Egyptian immigrants, Menna holds the country and the region very close to her heart. Spending many summers there, and even two full years of school, she found herself marching for the Egyptian revolution. Volunteer work and activism has shaped many aspects in her life, but architecture has become a way of expressing target issues such as the housing crisis, carbon emissions crisis, and natural disaster reconstruction.