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Nicole Panditi is an engineer, researcher and earth-geek based in Berkeley, California. She has a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and a minor in Sustainability from UC Berkeley. Her areas of expertise are plastics, fabrication, product design and prototyping, and sustainability analysis. For fun she likes to hug armfuls of 3D printing plastic and pretend they are hugging back (Fig. 1). She has published research on lattice behavior in the journal of Composite Structures (available here). She has given talks at Harvard, City College of San Francisco, and UC Berkeley about campus recycling infrastructures and 3D printing.