Environmental & Public Health

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David Herrera

2022 Fellow

David's research explores how environmental justice organizations influence local and state policy through the implementation of community organizing and coalition building strategies.

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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.

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Josephine Benson

2022 Fellow

Josephine Benson is an interdisciplinary scientist and communicator. In her role as Environment, Health and Safety Manager in the private sector, she combines her backgrounds in environmental science and healthcare to support manufacturing...

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Asta Habtemichael

2022 Fellow

Asta combines social and natural science approaches to study the effects of contaminants of emerging concern in the environment and public health. Drawing upon environmental organic chemistry, trophic ecology, and public health he explores PFAS bioaccumulation in marine food webs.

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Timnit Kefela

2021 Fellow

Timnit Kefela is an environmental scientist, organizer and educator who seeks to better understand (micro)plastic pathways, fates and impacts in effort to inform and design liberatory infrastructural solutions for pollution mitigation and...

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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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Alicia Arrington

2021 Fellow

Alicia Arrington received her J.D. at the University of California at Berkeley Law School, where she pursued her interests at the intersections of land, housing, and environmental justice. She was the founder of the Free the Land Project as...

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Thomas Morales

2021 Fellow

Thomas Morales is pursuing his Master of Public Health in Environmental Sciences at San Diego State University. Thomas obtained his Bachelor of Science in Environmental Science at San Diego State University. While studying environmental...

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Sarah Hsu

2021 Fellow

Sarah Hsu is a primary care resident at the UCSF Internal Medicine Residency based at Zuckerberg San Francisco General. Prior to residency, she was a medical student at Brown University and a Master's student in Primary Care-Population...

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Luis Alexis Rodríguez-Cruz

2020 Fellow

Luis Alexis Rodríguez Cruz is an interdisciplinary social scientist and writer based in Juana Díaz, Puerto Rico. His participatory and applied work explores the social dimensions of food systems, in relation to climate adaptation and public health outcomes, in the context of disasters and natural hazards.