Lindsay Saber is an Environmental Sciences and Engineering PhD student at the Gillings School of Global Public Health. She is researching the interactions of environmental and human microbiomes, and disease- reducing water and sanitation interventions. She received her undergraduate degree in Biology from Whitman College and proceeded to serve as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Tanzania. Lindsay earned her MPH in Global Health from Emory University, where she assisted in the development and implementation of a wastewater- based surveillance system for SARS-CoV-2 in the Atlanta Fulton County Jail. After graduating, she received a Fulbright research grant to study water, sanitation and hygiene behavioral risk factors for urinary tract infections (UTIs) in pregnant women in western Kenya.