Samantha Wind

Samantha Wind is a graduate student in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford. She is a 2021 graduate of Duke University, where she earned a bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering. Previously, Samantha worked with IRC WASH, an international think-and-do tank focused on finding long-term solutions to the global crisis in water, sanitation and hygiene services. She has also worked with the Alabama-based Center for Rural Enterprise and Environmental Justice, Jacobs Engineering Group, and Save the Children in Madagascar. Samantha’s interests include developing and evaluating holistic strategies to strengthen water and sanitation services and to promote healthy hygiene behaviors in low- and middle-income countries. She is currently part of a team supporting an evaluation of the WASH UP! India project, a combined education and infrastructure sustainability program that aims to improve the knowledge and practice of safe WASH behaviors among primary school students, as well as to improve the sustainability of WASH service delivery in schools. Samantha also has worked to analyze the reliability of hand pump functionality tests as part of the Uganda Rural Water Maintenance project, which aims to evaluate strategies for professionalizing rural water maintenance.