Bridget Gile is a civil and environmental engineering PhD student and Knight-Hennessy Scholar at Stanford University. She graduated from Villanova University in 2019 with a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering. Bridget aspires to contribute innovative, data-driven solutions to address critical water resources challenges. In her graduate work, she studies "one water" management strategies, including water reuse and stormwater capture, that contribute to sustainable, drought-resistant urban water supply. She finds that water powerfully illustrates the interconnectedness of sustainability and equity outcomes.
Before coming to Stanford, Bridget interned at the Villanova Center for Resilient Water Systems, at AKRF Water Resources in Philadelphia, and at LyondellBasell in Illinois; and was a research fellow at the National Science Foundation’s REU programs at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and at Virginia Tech. She received the Villanova University Presidential Scholarship and declined a Fulbright U.S. Student Grant to pursue PhD studies at Stanford. At Villanova, she was vice president of the Villanova Environmental Group, and president of Peers Enhancing Educational Resources for Students, a tutoring and mentoring program.