Miranda is chief executive officer and co-founder of BioCellection, a Silicon-valley based chemistry startup focused on turning unrecyclable plastic waste into chemicals and new materials for textiles and beyond. She started thinking about creative solutions to plastic pollution since childhood. She drives business development and fundraising and works with the technology team to bring the innovation to market. Miranda has raised early-stage grants and investment and brought BioCellection to its first paid pilots in the United States with the City of San Jose. Miranda is an entrepreneur since childhood, TED speaker, record-setting winner of the Wharton Business Plan Competition, and top 10 in North America in the Cartier Women’s Initiative Award. She received her BA biology, philosophy, and engineering entrepreneurship from the University of Pennsylvania, where she founded her company in the school’s chemical engineering lab. Miranda’s career in waste solutions began after a high school field trip to the Vancouver South Waste Transfer station with her best friend Jeanny Yao.