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Keiana Cavé

Keiana Ashli Cavé is an American entrepreneur, scientist and public speaker. She received $1.2 million in research funding from Chevron in 2016, who acquired her company in 2017.

Keiana Cavé
Personal details
Born
Keiana Ashli Cavé

(1998-04-14) April 14, 1998 (age 26)
New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.
Alma materLusher Charter School
ProfessionScience/Energy/Engineering
AwardsIntel International Science and Engineering Fair, Forbes 30 Under 30, Glamour Woman of the Year
WebsiteOfficial Website

Early life

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Cave grew up in New Orleans, Louisiana.[1] She studied at Lusher Charter High School.[2] She returned to her alma mater in 2017 to deliver the commencement speech.[3] Cave did ballet, track, and cheerleading before dropping those programs to pursue research in nanotechnology.[4] Cave attributes her early interest in engineering to the Project Lead the Way (PLTW) Program, for which she later became a national ambassador.[5][6] In 2014 she won $10,000 in New Orleans Entrepreneur Week's Trust Your Crazy Ideas Challenge hosted by NFL Quarterback Drew Brees.[7]

BP Deepwater Horizon Research

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In 2015 Cave won second place in the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair in the Earth & Environmental Sciences Category with her research on the BP Oil Spill impact.[8] As a result, NASA and MIT Lincoln Laboratory renamed minor planet "2000 GD136" after her.[9]

She began her research at the University of New Orleans at 15, funded by GOMRI (Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative).[10][11] The research, titled "A Method for Identifying the Photoproducts, Mechanisms, and Toxicity of Petroleum from the Deepwater Horizon by High-Performance Liquid Chromatography and DNPHi Derivatization," provided a method for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to identify nanotoxins that form in seawater after oil spills.[12] Cave's method later became a spinoff project in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology conducted at Tulane University in 2016.[13] During this time, Cave traveled with her lab to Gamboa, Panama to conduct research with the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute.[14]

Career

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Cave was a Chemical Engineering student at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor before dropping out.[15] She was named Student of the Year in 2017.[16]

Cave is a member of the Entrepreneurs Leadership Program and The Kairos Society.[17]

In 2017, Cave delivered talks at TEDx Barcelona.[18] More talks followed at TEDx UofM in 2018.[19][20]

Mare

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In 2016, Cave completed the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Global Entrepreneurship Bootcamp[21] and developed an oil spill dispersant molecule,[22] raising US$1.2 million in funding from Chevron for further research. She became the co-founder of Mare, a research initiative dedicated to developing solutions to large-scale problems.[23]

In 2017, Cave was included on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list and Magic Johnson's 32 Under 32 list.[23][24]

In 2018, Cave was named one of Glamour Magazine's 2018 College Women of the Year.[25][26]

Cave was named to Entrepreneur Magazine's 2018 Young Millionaires List, following the acquisition of Mare in late 2017.[27]

Sublima

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In 2019, Cave founded Sublima Pharmaceuticals in an effort to develop the first non-hormonal birth control in the United States.[28] She made this decision after having some side effects from her previous birth control pill. After three to four doctors and a span of six months, they figured out that the hormonal birth control was the problem. Sublima is still in early stages. Cave is expecting the fundraise after the drug gets approved by the FDA. The drug is currently in Phase Three of clinical trials.[29]

Diversity and inclusion campaigns

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Cave's ethnic origins have been the subject of debate.[30] She has been featured in Diversity Campaigns by MTV,[31] ABC's Good Morning America,[32] SXSW,[6] 100 Top Women in the World List,[33] The Why Culture,[34] and The Color of STEM.[35]

Published works

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  • A Method for Identifying the Photoproducts, Mechanisms, and Toxicity of Petroleum from the Deepwater Horizon by High-Performance Liquid Chromatography, DNPHi Derivatization, and Solar Simulation[36]

References

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  1. ^ (LSU), Louisiana State University. "Louisiana Students Participate in Intel International Science and Engineering Fair". www.lsu.edu. Retrieved October 2, 2018.
  2. ^ "Lusher Alumna Makes "Top 100 Women in the World" List – Lusher Charter School". www.lusherschool.org. Retrieved October 2, 2018.
  3. ^ "Lusher Charter School Graduate Keiana Cave' Gives TEDx Talk in Spain; Scheduled to be Lusher 2017 Commencement Speaker - Greater New Orleans Collaborative of Charter Schools | GNOCCS". Greater New Orleans Collaborative of Charter Schools | GNOCCS. June 21, 2017. Retrieved October 2, 2018.
  4. ^ "Meet the Brightest Young Entrepreneurs: 'Be Open-minded and Jump at New Opportunities' - KWHS". KWHS. January 5, 2017. Retrieved October 2, 2018.
  5. ^ Project Lead The Way (February 9, 2018), Keiana Cave presenting at PLTW Summit 2017, retrieved October 2, 2018
  6. ^ a b "Closing Diversity Gaps Through Career Learning". SXSW PanelPicker. Retrieved October 2, 2018.
  7. ^ "Bleu". Trust Your Crazy Idea Challenge. February 20, 2016. Retrieved October 3, 2018.
  8. ^ "Intel ISEF 2015 Grand Award Winners | Society for Science & the Public". www.societyforscience.org. Archived from the original on September 5, 2015. Retrieved October 2, 2018.
  9. ^ Chamberlin, Alan. "JPL Small-Body Database Browser". ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Retrieved October 3, 2018.
  10. ^ Cave, Keiana. "Gulf Research Initiative Newsletter" (PDF).
  11. ^ "Roster of GoMRI-funded Researcher, Students, and Others - Research Project Information System - GoMRI - Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative". research.gomri.org. Retrieved October 2, 2018.
  12. ^ Keianacave (December 1, 2015), My Research Simplified: A Method for the Determination of Aldehydes by HPLC and DNPHi Derivatization, retrieved October 2, 2018
  13. ^ "Project – Van Bael Lab – Panama Research". endotraits.tulane.edu. Retrieved October 2, 2018.
  14. ^ "Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute Newsletter May 2016" (PDF). STRI.
  15. ^ "200 Years of Entrepreneurs – Center for Entrepreneurship". cfe.umich.edu. May 26, 2017. Retrieved October 2, 2018.
  16. ^ "Student of the Year: Keiana Cavé". The Michigan Daily. Retrieved October 2, 2018.
  17. ^ "Kairos". kairoshq.com. Retrieved October 2, 2018.
  18. ^ TEDx Talks (June 19, 2017), The Power of Being Obnoxious | Keiana Cavé | TEDxESADE, retrieved October 2, 2018
  19. ^ TEDx Talks (March 13, 2018), The Art of Goal Setting | Keiana Cave | TEDxUofM, retrieved October 2, 2018
  20. ^ "TEDxUofM | TED". www.ted.com. Retrieved October 2, 2018.
  21. ^ "Keiana Cavé Forbes 30 under 30, Energy - MIT Bootcamps". bootcamp.mit.edu. January 4, 2017. Retrieved October 2, 2018.
  22. ^ "Keiana Cave".
  23. ^ a b "Magic Johnson". Magic Johnson. Retrieved October 3, 2018.
  24. ^ "Keiana Cave". Forbes. Retrieved October 2, 2018.
  25. ^ Militare, Jessica. "10 College Women on Activism, #MeToo, and Calling B.S. on Perfection". Glamour. Retrieved October 2, 2018.
  26. ^ "Meet Glamour's 2018 College Women of the Year". Retrieved October 2, 2018.
  27. ^ Staff, Entrepreneur (August 14, 2018). "Meet the New Bosses: How These Entrepreneurs Under 20 Are Changing Industries". Entrepreneur. Retrieved October 2, 2018.
  28. ^ "Sublima". iFeminist.org. Retrieved October 12, 2024.
  29. ^ Marinelli, Gina. "Work Friends: Keiana Cavè". Argent Work. Argent. Retrieved October 12, 2024.
  30. ^ "Keiana Cavé". Sports, Hip Hop & Piff - The Coli. Retrieved October 2, 2018.
  31. ^ MTV (March 9, 2017), Keiana Cavé is a Superhero for Science | A Woman Did That!, retrieved October 2, 2018
  32. ^ "Video: Teen who created toxin-detecting molecules urges girls to pursue STEM". ABC News. Retrieved October 2, 2018.
  33. ^ "48. Keiana Cavé - GC4W Top 100 Women in the World. - gc4women". gc4women. July 26, 2017. Retrieved October 2, 2018.
  34. ^ "These 4 Passionate Teenage Inventors Changing The World Future – The Why Culture". www.thewhyculture.com. May 10, 2018. Retrieved October 2, 2018.
  35. ^ The Color of STEM (January 31, 2016), The Color Of STEM Ep#1 Keiana Cave', retrieved October 2, 2018
  36. ^ "IHSJS - Aug 2015 Magazine". www.ihsjs.com. Retrieved January 25, 2017.
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