UCLA

Jazz's studies are concentrated in sustainability and design/development. He has worked on issues such as extreme heat, air quality, community engagement and schoolyard greening.

Chelsea is driven by the belief that we cannot solve our climate crisis by exacerbating our housing crisis. Her work empowers tenants in building decarbonization efforts, ensuring they benefit from climate initiatives.

Zeltzin hopes to continue to create resilient, healthy cities by finding the connecting points between the built and natural environment through a lens of design, geospatial analysis, and participatory planning.

Water justice policy expert with experience in legislation, research, non-profit work, and advocacy in communities of color and Indigenous communities.

Edgar integrates transformative climate adaptation principles into building community capacity to address the local impacts of climate change. He connects his lived experiences and professional passions to include and prioritize frontline communities in the creation of adaptation solutions.

Marisol investigates the sources, fate, and transport of microbial contaminants in coastal watersheds in the United States and abroad, with a focus on providing more equitable methodologies for monitoring coastal waters.

Tanner Waters (he/him) is a Ph.D. candidate in the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at UCLA. His graduate research focuses on using the emerging technique of environmental DNA metabarcoding to assess the impact of coastal...

Idalmis is a third-year law student at UCLA School of Law, where she is enrolled in the David J. Epstein Program in Public Interest Law and Policy. She began advocating on environmental justice issues in her community of East Los Angeles...

Monika Shankar is a PhD student in Environmental Health Science at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. She graduated with a Master of Urban and Regional Planning degree from the Luskin School of Public Affairs at the University of...