Meghana Vemulapalli is a consultant at Chartwell since January 2023, previously serving as an associate consultant. Prior experience includes a role as a mechanical engineer at change:WATER Labs from June to December 2022, and a mechanical engineering and operations intern at Alchemr in July 2021, where design components of an AEM water electrolyzer were created and simulations performed using SolidWorks. Meghana's early career includes work as an undergraduate researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, analyzing fluid flow and heat transfer in Ugandan charcoal cookstoves, and a position as a game designer and developer at Open Learning Exchange. Meghana holds a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, earned between 2018 and 2022, and completed high school at American Heritage Schools - Palm Beach Campus from 2014 to 2018.