Libby Byrne Funiciello is a structural engineer at Ramboll, formerly O'Brien and Gere, in Syracuse, NY and is completing her apprentice years as a New York State certified Engineer in Training. She works on a range of projects from municipal water/wastewater treatment plants to government-funded relief efforts to private industrial process upgrades. She is responsible for both detailed design of structures associated with these projects and construction-phase support through completion. Ms. Byrne Funiciello leans on the camaraderie of women she has met through the Society of Women Engineers and company-led diversity focus groups and has grown passionate about education, particularly the push for fluency in STEM to underrepresented youth.

Ms. Byrne Funiciello graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 2015 with a degree in Civil Engineering and a commitment to be a steward of both the built environment and the community. Her curiosity for other cultures and interest in international development brought her to Tanzania and Nicaragua for project-based work during college summers. It became clear that systemic injustice is not unique to developing countries when she moved back home to Syracuse after college and started living downtown. Confronted with that knowledge and with a continued interest in social justice, Ms. Byrne Funiciello volunteers with the local Engineers Without Borders chapter and the Adapt CNY Civic Engagement Task Force. She has found an opportunity in CCA to learn more about alternatives to incarceration in Syracuse and to play a role in sharing their message.