When was the last time you felt your life was turned upside down?
How did you find a way out?
Last Spring when the Covid-19 outbreak led to a series of campus closures, forcing tens of thousands of students to move out of their dorms in a matter of days, Kimberly Jung, a graduate student at MIT Engineering School, got the news on her mobile phone.
Stunned, she kicked into crisis-ready mode.
As a U.S. Army veteran with three years of combat experience in Afghanistan and emergency response training dealing with natural disaster relief, Kimberly quickly followed orders to move out and found a critical mission to help save lives.
Ventilators were badly needed in hospital emergency rooms filled with Covid patients. Kimberly decided to join the MIT E-Vent Team as the executive officer to help guide the engineers to design an FDA approved low-cost ventilator prototype that would soon be picked up by manufacturers not only in America but around the world.
In Season 5 True Colors: Episode 7 Mission After Mission, Kimberly talks about her mission-driven mindset and calling, which is instantly motivational and simultaneously inspirational.
Listen to our conversation here.
Kimberly Jung is currently the COO of PickleRobots in Somerville, MA.
For more about Kimberly’s amazing story about joining the U.S. army – check out “Breaking Barriers.” Check out “Keep Climbing” to hear how she became an entrepreneur after graduating from Harvard Business School.
True Colors – a Season 5 Special Series – is about the color of one’s character in a time of crisis.
In this 10-part podcast series, we have expanded our focus beyond Asians to include the African American experiences in Episode #1, Episode #3 and Episode #5.
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