2023 CJARS
Get to know the team!
Emily MartinezEmily is an Urban Studies & Planning major. She loves living in the moment and finding cool, old things. Her favorite soda is cherry coke.
Daniel SjoholmDaniel is a second-year Urban Studies and Planning major and Computational Social Science. He particularly enjoys studying sustainable transportation and land use, along with the social effects of climate change. In his free time, he swims, watches baseball, and does yoga.
Anna ZhouAnna is a Joint Mathematics-Economics Major and Political Science Minor. She hopes to work in environmental or intellectual property law in the future. She loves playing with her cats, reading, and dancing in her downtime.
Lily McCannLily is an Anthropology major with a concentration in climate change and human solutions. She is passionate about climate justice, food sovereignty and health, and in her free time she enjoys hiking, bird watching and cooking.
Nate PakNate majors in sociococultural anthropology and is pursuing a minor in public service. Recently, they have been obsessed with collecting stickers and learning how Chilean Spanish and Kansai-ben work. Though you'll likely see them complaining about transphobia, you can also catch them running around in Disneyland.
Donika MorenoDonika is a Real Estate and Development major. Though her journey at UCSD has been a long one, she is grateful for the opportunities presented to her during her time here and still doesn’t want it to be over. She still looks forward to meeting more people, gaining more knowledge, and staying in sunny San Diego for more years to come.
Claudia MattsonClaudia is an Anthropology major with a focus on Climate Change and Human Solutions. She is passionate about exploring new places and spending time outdoors.
Gabriella SalvadorGabriella is an Ethnic Studies major. She enjoys exploring new hobbies and places and is always thinking about coffee.
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Phoebe SkokPhoebe is an Anthropology: Climate Change and Human Solutions major and a Linguistics: French minor. When not working on climate action and activism, Phoebe can be found testing new vegan recipes, doing the New York Times crossword, reading any book in sight, or jumping into cold water.
Allison GableAllison is an Urban Studies and Planning major and Climate Change and Human Solutions minor. They enjoy creating art, especially illustration and speculative fiction, and they're saving up to study climate resilience in Bangkok over the summer.
Anika ChakrabartyAnika graduated with degree a fourth-year Business Economics major. She enjoys spending her time hiking, reading, playing the violin, and watching movies.
Gabriel Malat de ValleGabriel is a sociocultural anthropology major and a human rights and migration minor. He loves writing, cooking, being outside, and taking pictures and videos.
Arlene Nagtalon(She/Her)
Arlene (she/her) is a second-year pre-med Molecular and Cell Biology major and Public Service minor at Revelle. She was motivated to participate in the Climate Justice Action Resilience Scholars (CJARS) Program to learn more about the climate crisis, develop a deeper love for the diversity of rich cultures in her hometown of San Diego, and meet other passionate students from various academic disciplines and walks of life. Although she is a proud woman of color in STEM, Arlene considers herself a creative that enjoys reading, writing, acting, making origami, and taking an obscene amount of sunset photos. To keep herself grounded and fortified, she leans on her family, friends, peers and mentors, as well as her cat Loaf.
Lenia BarthLenia is an exchange student from Bauhaus-University Weimar (Germany) and an Urban Studies and Planning major. Her passions are group activities such as team sports or cooking together but she also really loves reading or long walks through the forest or on the beach.
Xavier LopezBio and photo coming soon!
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Andrea PinedaAndrea is a Sociology major and an Urban Planning & Studies minor. She was born and raised in East Los Angeles, known for its predominantly minority communities, where she developed a passion for helping underserving communities of color. Andrea enjoys supporting small businesses, especially minority-owned businesses. She is also described as an adventurous person who likes to discover new places and try different foods.
Sally GuanSally is an Ecology Behavior and Evolution major with Critical Gender Studies minor. During her free time, she enjoys going on long hikes, bake for her loved ones, and reading on the beach.
Rain LinsRain is a second year Urban Studies and Planning major who is very interested in sustainability and climate change. They love to skateboard, be creative, and spend time outdoors.
Cassandra Jackson-GrijalvaCassandra is an Anthropology: Climate Change & Human Solutions major with a minor in law and society. She is an avid bibliophile who on average reads over 250 books a year. And she has a great appreciation for the outdoors from her childhood spending a lot of time outdoors with her horses, cats, dogs, goats, chickens, and ducks.
Gabi BritoGabi is a Global Health major, and in her free time, she enjoys hiking, cooking and spending quality time with my loved ones!
Nika Masuzawa Nika is a
Public Health and Environmental Policy major interested in the interconnections of the built environment and its impact on community health. In her free time she enjoys cooking and baking, playing tennis, and taking naps at the beach. Jasmin RoweBio and photo coming soon!
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