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.
Itzel is passionate about water justice policy and ensuring all Californians have access to safe and affordable drinking water. She has a background in legislation, research, non-profit work, and advocacy in communities of color and Indigenous communities.
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.
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.
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...
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...
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...
Déjà’s work focuses on managing the Center for Racial Equity at Work's programmatic priorities including strategic partnerships and research with the Southern California Black Worker Hub for Regional Organizing and the implementation of our...
Zully Juarez provides research and analysis of environmental justice policies to Just Solutions Collective. With the direction and input of BIPOC frontline policy practitioners, she works to identify, research, review, and analyze existing...
Teniope Adewumi-Gunn is currently a Science Fellow at NRDC focusing on the intersection of climate change and worker health. Her research looks for solutions to address the climate impacts faced by workers, with a focus on underserved...
