[Sehefac] UCR Bonnie Reiss Leading on Climate Fellows for 2024-2025

[Chikako Takeshita]

Wow! These are terrific fellows!
Thank you, Dana and the committee, for all of your work.
This is very exciting!

Chikako

Chikako Takeshita (she/her)
Associate Professor
Department of Society, Environment, and Health Equity
University of California, Riverside
The Global Biopolitics of the IUD (MIT Press)
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On Tue, Aug 20, 2024 at 11:24 AM Dana Simmons via Sehefac <
sehefac at lists.ucr.edu> wrote:

> Dear SEHE affiliates,
> I'm thrilled to announce the UCR Bonnie Reiss Leading on Climate Fellows
> for 2024-2025:
>
> *Victoria Podakova (Political Science major), Climate Action Student
> Engagement fellow*, will work with the Office of Sustainability to
> support efforts to engage students in support of UCR's climate action
> goals. Victoria will develop and disseminate educational materials to build
> community awareness and generate support for climate action-related
> projects. Victoria also will play an important role in communicating
> student opinions on UC’s climate policy, programs, and actions to
> university leadership.
>
> *Christine Seaman (Masters in Public Policy), Planning (Resilience/Climate
> Action Policy) Fellow*, will work with the Office of Sustainability on a
> project related to UCR's Climate Action Plan to achieve campus targets for
> reducing Greenhouse Gas emissions, as well as campus plans for adaptation,
> resilience, equity, and climate justice. Christine has a background in
> disaster resilience and will apply those skills to climate resilience
> planning.
>
> *Aashish Raheja (MS in Computer Science), Decarbonization Fellow*, will
> work with the Office of Sustainability on a project that supports the
> development and implementation of the UCR decarbonization study. Aashish
> experienced the catastrophic impacts of climate change with major flooding
> in Mumbai and will apply his engineering/ CS skills to reducing those
> impacts.
>
> *Rahul Almeida (Biology major), Sustainable Food and Agriculture Student
> Engagement Fellow*, will support efforts to engage the UCR community on
> the environmental and health benefits of sustainable and plant-based foods.
> Rahul will develop and disseminate educational materials - specifically, a
> student community cookbook - to build community awareness of the
> environmental and health benefits of choosing sustainable and plant-based
> foods, and build awareness of the efforts and projects happening at UCR to
> reduce food waste and promote sustainable and plant-based foods. Rahul will
> gather community input, suggestions, issues, and opportunities about UCR’s
> programs and approaches to promoting sustainable agriculture and food.
>
> *Danielle Ma (Political Science major), Sustainable Food and Agriculture
> Fellow,* will work with the Basic Needs department and Dining Services
> to expand and maintain the UCR Food Recovery Network chapter, and to reduce
> food waste on campus.
>
> *Shrey Patel (MBA), Sustainable Food and Agriculture Fellow,* will apply
> his business accounting skills in work with DIning Services to identify
> challenges and potential solutions related to increasing sustainable and
> plant-based food procurement and eliminating single use plastics.
>
> It's great to see fellows hailing from almost all the schools and
> colleges, both graduates and undergraduates. There were many other
> extraordinary applicants and the choice was very difficult. Enormous thanks
> to Jade, Cassia, Ellen, Francis Mitalo (Office of Sustainability), Cynthia
> Gonzalez (Basic Needs) and Gustavo Plascencia (Dining Services) for
> investing considerable time and energy into selecting and interviewing the
> candidates.
> Yay!
> I hope that all of you are doing well. I promise an update on SEHE soon,
> as we prepare to launch our two new majors and 25 new classes. Mark the
> afternoon of September 18 on your calendars for a little something.
> Happy August,
> Dana
>
> --
> Dana Simmons
> Chair and Associate Professor, Department of Society, Environment and
> Health Equity
> Cooperating Faculty, Department of History
> University of California, Riverside
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