Environmental Policy & Law

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Deniss Martinez

2021 Fellow
Deniss is a PhD candidate in the Graduate Group in Ecology at UC Davis. The purpose of her dissertation is to find strategies for California Native communities and their collaborators to create governance and collaborative mechanisms that...
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Paloma Henriques

2021 Fellow
Paloma received her Master of Science in Marine Policy and Graduate Certificate in Interdisciplinary Climate Studies at the University of Maine. She was part of the J. Stoll Lab for Applied Socio-Ecological Research in Fisheries and Ocean...
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Aaron Maruzzo

2021 Fellow
Aaron Maruzzo is a MPH graduate from the Environmental Health Sciences department at UC Berkeley School of Public Health. He joined UC Berkeley after three years of working as the Water Lab Analyst for the municipal water company in the U.S...
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AJ Hudson

2021 Fellow
A. J. Hudson is a JD candidate at Yale Law School and a recent MESc graduate of the Yale School of the Environment (2019). Before law school, AJ spent five years teaching and eventually helped to found a public high school in one of the...
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Gabriela Alberola

2021 Fellow
Gabriela ‘Gaby’ Alberola is originally from Panama City, Panama, where her passion for environmental and social justice was born. For her undergraduate research at the University of Panama, she conducted a botanical inventory of a forest...
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Ángel Ibañez

2021 Fellow
Ángel is an MBA and MPP candidate at MIT's Sloan School of Management and Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, where he is a Bacon Environmental Fellow through the Center for Public Leadership. His work focuses on expanding clean energy...
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Vera receives ASA award for outstanding publication

Lourdes Vera is the winner of the 2021 Robert Boguslaw Award for her lead role in the publication “When Data Justice and Environmental Justice Meet: Formulating a Response to Extractive Logic Through Environmental Data Justice” published in 2019 in Information, Communication & Society. Vera is a 2019 Switzer Fellow, a PhD Candidate in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Northeastern University, and a member of the Environmental Data and Governance Initiative (EDGI).
June 8, 2021
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Vaquero receives Equal Justice Works Fellowship

Idalmis Vaquero will defend the environmental and housing rights of Black and Latinx families impacted by industrial lead contamination in East and Southeast Los Angeles.
May 26, 2021
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Erika Zavaleta appointed to California Fish and Game Commission

Governor Gavin Newsom has appointed Erika Zavaleta, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at UC Santa Cruz and a Switzer Fellow, to the California Fish and Game Commission.
May 10, 2021
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Policy options to address climate induced displacement from the Northern Triangle

Camila Bustos is part of an expert group from Harvard, Yale, and the University Network for Human Rights calling on Biden administration to revise immigration and climate policy to afford protections to those fleeing devastating climate change impacts in Central America.
April 29, 2021