Portfolio

Evan Roden.

Optimizing complex systems to improve human quality of life
at the intersection of Engineering.

Three Pillars

Where disciplines converge.

Energy & Infrastructure

From hospital central energy plants to ERP systems — designing, managing, and optimizing the critical infrastructure that keeps organizations running.

$143.8MEaaS Partnership

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Civic Advocacy

Seven years leading organ donation reform. Climate policy fellowship. Award-winning urban revitalization. Building systems that serve everyone.

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Visual Arts

Cinematography with Claiborne Avenue Productions. Digital marketing for Tulane. Kiln-formed glass art. Vogue Italy editorial modeling.

4Creative Disciplines

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Featured Work

Selected projects.

EngineeringEnergy-as-a-Service

ENFRA × Rochester Regional Health

$143.8 million, 30-year EaaS partnership delivering $354.6M in guaranteed savings and 52.5% reduction in purchased electricity.

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AdvocacyLegislative Advocacy

The YCOD — Opt-Out Organ Donation

Founded at age 17. Seven years of advocacy to change New York's organ donor designation system, addressing the state's lowest-in-nation registration rate.

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ResearchBiomedical Engineering

VA Prosthetics — 3D-Printed Devices

Designed and modeled custom prosthetic devices in Fusion 360 for 3D printing, restoring autonomy to American veterans in the Southern Louisiana region.

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CreativeCinematography

Claiborne Avenue Productions

Camera operator and editor under Albert J. Moten, Jr., working with BlackMagic 6K and Sony a7s II on productions in New Orleans.

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Recognition

On the record.

Advocacy for The YCOD covered by

CBC
Yahoo News
Business Insider
WKBW
Spectrum News

C40 Reinventing Cities Award

Mayor of New Orleans

For a comprehensive revitalization plan for New Orleans East — disaster planning, solar, transit, and green housing.

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TEDxTulane speaker

Youth political participation

A talk on the structural barriers that exclude young people from the systems that govern their lives.

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Real Heroes nominee

American Red Cross · 2021

Nominated for the Real Heroes Education Award for founding The YCOD and leading its advocacy.

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Vogue Italy

BizarrAudi · SchoolTime · 2020

Runway modeling for Vogue Italy's feature of BizarrAudi's SchoolTime collection.

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About

The through-line is systems.

From founding a national organ donation advocacy organization at seventeen to managing central energy plants for one of America's largest healthcare EaaS partnerships, Evan Roden approaches every challenge as a system to be understood and optimized.

A Tulane-trained biomedical engineer, published researcher, TEDx speaker, and award-winning filmmaker, Evan brings an unusually interdisciplinary perspective to complex problems — whether they involve hospital infrastructure, legislative reform, or visual storytelling.

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