Carolina Tornesi Mackinnon

United States

Description

Carolina is an Argentine and USA young water professional and advocate based in San Francisco, California with a bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from Purdue University.

Her passion for achieving SDG6 led her to become the World Youth Parliament for Water president in 2021. In her first year of presidency she was awarded the World Youth Forum Honoree award (2022) for being an influential youth.

She has spoken and participated in multiple international events (i.e. UN Water Conference 2023, Stockholm World Water Week, etc.) and was co-chair of World Water Day 2023.

Carolina is also a business analyst at Brown & Caldwell, an environmental engineering firm, on their digital water team. Prior to that, Carolina had been working at Xylem (a water technology company) since 2019, holding three different roles within the Engineering Leadership Development Program and her final role was as a Sr. Product Management Analyst.

She believes in making positive change in the water arena through purposeful inclusion of underrepresented voices and ideas, especially youth.