CUSA Student Research Associates
Jamie Agius
Jamie Agius is an undergraduate at the University of California, Irvine and a research associate for the UCI Center for Unconventional Security Affairs (CUSA). She is majoring in Environmental Studies with a focus on Sustainability Studies. Her research interests lie at the intersection of the environment, conflict, and peace, and focus specifically on the conservation of natural resources, sustainable energy, agriculture, and development in areas of violent conflict and instability. Currently, with CUSA, she is working on developing infrastructure for the Sustainability Certificate Program as well as other sustainability-related projects. Jamie has completed CUSA's twenty week Sustainability Certificate Program and is involved with various student run organizations on campus.
Dallas Augustine
Dallas Augustine is a Masters of Urban and Regional Planning student in the Department of Planning, Policy, and Design at the University of California, Irvine. She attended New York University where she received her Bachelor's degree in East Asian Studies (Emphasis: Chinese History, Politics, and Language) with a minor in Metropolitan Studies. Dallas is interested in a vast array of issues in urban security, including emergency management and disaster preparation and sources of urban violence. Her past research includes the 1960's Race Riots and Urban Policy, the rise and spread of international gang MS-13, and poverty in El Salvador. She is currently conducting research for the Center for Unconventional Security Affairs on Catastrophic Event Preparedness and assessing the extent to which Orange County is prepared to face and recover from a "Mega-Disaster".
Jessie Baker
Jessie Baker is a Social Ecology undergraduate student who specializes in sustainability studies. Jessie's principal research interests lie in the field of energy consumption within the residential sector with a particular focus on feedback device technologies. She is currently working with a team of PhD students and a fellow undergraduate under Dr. Daniel Stokols and Dr. David Kirkby on a manuscript that will present a profile of early adopter feedback device users and compare their energy conservation use behaviors to those of non-feedback device users. Her present research aims to learn about participant’s experience with feedback devices to better understand their potential impact in energy savings. During her time at UCI she has been awarded the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship and has been a UROP recipient. Her future research plans are to build on the foundations of previous work and design taxonomies of energy feedback devices that will help guide consumer decisions through the expected rise of these residential utilities. Jessie has particular expertise and interest in the regulation of residential utilities from a conservation and sustainability perspective. Following graduation she plans to pursue graduate study abroad and further explore research within international development and environmental resource availability.
Natalie Baker
Natalie Baker is a PhD student in the Department of Planning, Policy, and Design with an emphasis in the Environmental Policy specialty. She has a bachelors of science in Psychology from the University of Central Florida in Orlando, graduating Cum Laude with honors in her major. Additionally, Natalie has a masters of science in public health with an emphasis in Tropical Medicine and a masters of science in International Development, both from Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana. Ms. Baker has professional experience working with the City of New Orleans Mosquito and Termite Control Board, Tulane University's Center for Bioenvironmental Research-Center for Infectious Diseases, and the State of Louisiana Office of Public Health-Center for Infectious Disease Epidemiology. She also has extensive experience working in the non-profit world, in the areas of HIV and homelessness as a program coordinator and grant writer. Natalie's current research interests primarily lie in the effect of natural and man-made disasters on cities from a sociological/historical perspective, particularly on New Orleans post-Hurricane Katrina and cities in the Middle East. Natalie was recently honored with a 2007 Graduate Student Mentor award.
Martin Bukoweic
Senior at the University High School, Irvine, CA. Planning to major in international relations. Bilingual. Recipient of 2011 AP Scholar Award.
Lyndsey Christoffersen
Lyndsey Christoffersen is a Ph.D. student in the department of Planning, Policy, and Design at the University of California, Irvine. She holds a Master's of Public Administration with an emphasis in Urban Studies from California State University, Long Beach (CSULB), and a Bachelor's degree in Communication Studies from CSULB, graduating cum laude and as an Outstanding Undergraduate in her department. Broadly, her research focus is on people movement. Specifically, Lyndsey is planning to write her dissertation on the problem of human trafficking. Lyndsey has presented two research papers at academic conferences: "PETA's Meat," presented at the 2005 Western States Communication Association conference in San Francisco; and "What Would Jesus Build: The Religious Right's Unconventional Anti-Immigrant Stance,"presented at the 2008 National Communication Association conference in San Diego.
Heather Cox
Jake Edman
Jake Edman is a physics and earth systems science undergraduate at University of California, Irvine. He has a broad range of research interests, but recently he has primarily focused on geophysical problems, including groundwater hydrology. Formerly the president of the Sustainable Energy Technology Club at UC Irvine, he also maintains an interest in emerging renewable energy technologies. During the summer of 2010, Jake participated in the NSF-funded Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) at the SETI Institute and NASA Ames Research Center, where he worked on a project pertaining to earthquake forecasting. Also, he was recently the recipient of the Herbert C. Chen award (outstanding junior in the physics department) and the 2010 “Excellent Academic Writing in Science and Technology at UCI” award.
Tamer ElGindi
Tamer ElGindi is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Planning, Policy, and Design at the University of California, Irvine. He holds a Master’s degree in Economics from the American University in Cairo (AUC), and a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from AUC with a minor in Business Administration, where he graduated with high honors. For his Masters in Economics, he completed a thesis entitled: “Islamic Finance: A Study of Malaysian Banks from 1999-2006”. He has published a couple of publications in the realm of Islamic finance vis-a-vis conventional finance in the New Horizon Magazine and recently in the Review of Radical Political Economics. He has also worked as a Technical & Economic Analyst for the Cairo Air Improvement Project (CAIP) funded by the US-AID, and as a Research Economist in Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO). Tamer’s current research interests generally lie in the effect of inequality levels on economic development in developing countries with special emphasis on Egypt. He hopes to extend his research on ways to reduce inequality through Islamic finance and social entrepreneurship.
Benjamin Eng
Benjamin Eng is a Master’s of Urban and Regional Planning student in the Department of Planning, Policy, and Design. His emphasis is in International Development particularly within the Asian regions of China, South Korea, and Japan. He currently holds a bachelor’s degree in Environmental Analysis and Design with a minor in Urban Planning from the University of California, Irvine. Benjamin is working with the CUSA on a project involving New Songdo City in South Korea and the potential impacts it holds for future planning, population growth, and strategies to combat continually limited resources and climate change.
Kristen Gamble
Kristen Gamble is currently a PhD student in Psychology and Social Behavior with an interdisciplinary focus on environmental behavior. She received her Bachelor's of Arts in Applied Psychology at North Carolina State University in 2008, summa cum laude with a minor in German. While her research projects have focused mainly on increasing pro-environmental behavior, she has also branched into topics of social turbulence and community engagement. Ms. Gamble is interested in addressing how experience with socially turbulent events (such as natural disasters, limited natural resources, or political shifts) affect people's relationship with nature and ultimate use of natural resources. She hopes to start a project focusing on community resilience and natural resource framing in South America.
Josh Gellers
Josh Gellers is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Political Science and Assistant Director of the Focused Research Group in International Environmental Cooperation. He holds a B.A. in Political Science with a minor in Geography from the University of Florida, where he graduated magna cum laude as Outstanding Male Leader, Four Year Scholar, and Valedictorian, and was a Marshall Scholarship finalist. He also holds an M.A. in Climate and Society from Columbia University and an M.A. in Political Science from UCI. Josh has served as a researcher for the Global Roundtable on Climate Change (GROCC), Center for Research on Environmental Decisions (CRED), and Earth Institute at Columbia University, and has interned at the U.S. Department of Commerce, City of Irvine, City of Long Beach, and EcoMedia, a CBS company. Josh has presented his research at numerous state, national, and international conferences including the American Political Science Association and International Studies Association annual meetings. His dissertation focuses on the environmental impact of statutory, legislative, and doctrinal environmental rights. He is the recipient of the 2009 Debbie Davis Award for graduate student leadership and advocacy at UCI.
Amy Grubb
Amy Grubb is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Irvine. She holds a B.A in Government from Dartmouth College, an M.P.I.A with a focus on China and International Development/Non-Profit Management from UCSD’s Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, and an M.A in Political Science from UCI. Her dissertation explores variations in violence at the local level by comparing social processes in peaceful and violent communities in Northern Ireland, Kenya, and the Philippines. Broadly, her research interests include genocide and ethnic conflict, civil society, and civil resistance movements. Prior to UCI, Amy worked for the Navy as a research specialist on security issues in Asia and taught in China and the US. She is currently the events coordinator for the Center for International Studies at UCI.
Wendy Hermosillo
Wendy is currently an undergraduate student at the University of California, Irvine. She studies Urban and Environmental Sustainability in the Department of Planning, Policy & Design, and Political Science. She is a research affiliate for the UCI Center for Unconventional Security Affairs studying the feasibility of underdeveloped nations to enter the international carbon market. In collaboration with fellow UCI students, and with the support of Sir Richard Branson’s philanthropic arm Virgin Unite and the Orange County Center for Living Peace, they will focus specifically on creating a training guide for the people of Sierra Leone to fulfill the criteria of the United Nations Collaborative Programme on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries (UN-REDD+). While at Santa Monica College she was appointed as the first Director of Sustainability. Amongst other accomplishments, she helped conduct a District-wide greenhouse gas inventory that has led to new policies in construction, transportation, energy use, and waste management, and she created a student initiative and fiscal policy that led to the Santa Monica College Board of Trustees adoption of a Zero Waste Event Policy for which she co-authored the District Implementation Guide. Over the last twenty years she has volunteered for various non-profit organizations including AIDS Project Los Angeles, Mission Mozambique, and Sustainable Works.
Alexis Jaclyn Hickman
Alexis Jaclyn Hickman is a Ph.D. student in the department of Planning, Policy & Design at the University of California, Irvine. She is a Research Associate at the Center for Unconventional Security affairs and for the Focused Research Group in Environmental Cooperation. She holds a Master's in Urban and Regional Planning from UCI, and a Bachelor's degree in Global Studies with a regional emphasis in Asia, and a minor in Anthropology from University of California, Santa Barbara. For her Masters in Urban and Regional Planning, she completed a thesis entitled: "A City-State under Pressure: Singapore's Housing and Policy Reform in an Age of Globalization." For this project, she conducted a two month field study in Singapore. Broadly, she is interested in globalizing cities in Asia and their socioeconomic development. Her current research is a comparative evaluation of Singapore and Bangkok as two case studies of rapidly urbanizing cities; she is researching the impacts of city marketing strategies for economic growth and the subsequent impacts on social equity and environmental conditions. Growing up primarily in Southeast Asia, she lived and studied in Malaysia, Philippines, Hong Kong, and Singapore and traveled extensively in the region; these experiences and continued studies drive her interest in the this rapidly growing region.
Matthew Holmberg
Matthew Holmberg is an undergraduate at the University of California, Irvine. He is majoring in International Studies and Political Science. Currently, he is working with fellow UC Irvine students and a myriad of community groups to develop a research project to promote a sustainable future. This research project is a collaborative effort with Sir Richard Branson’s non-profit organization, Virgin Unite, the Center for Living Peace, Orange County and UC Irvine’s Center for Unconventional Security Affairs.
Beth Karlin
Beth is a fourth year Ph.D. student in Social Ecology. Her work focuses on integrating psychological insights into the design, implementation, and evaluation of social and environmental programs. Her current projects investigate the psychological dimensions of energy conservation, the design and use of technology-enabled residential energy feedback, and the evaluation of documentary film to promote social change.
Beth has presented to diverse audiences including the Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences, Society for Human Ecology, and American Psychological Association. She is an active member of the uci@home research team, a science fellow with the Harmony Institute, and currently serves as the membership chair of the Society for Environmental, Population, and Conservation Psychology.
Before beginning her doctoral work, Beth spent 10 years working in K-12 education, holding positions as a teacher, counselor, program director, consultant, and school administrator. She believes the role of a researcher is not only to better understand the world but also to improve it and hopes that her work is able to serve both purposes.
Zalaikha Lodin
Zalaikha Lodin is a fourth year, undergraduate student at the University of California, Irvine where she is majoring in Political Science. She is President of the Afghanistan Development Project, an organization dedicated to raising awareness about the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan around her campus and the local community. She also has a bi-weekly segment on Voice of Afghanistan TV, in hopes of motivating her peers to utilize their individual potential for a greater humanitarian calling. She plans to continue her studies in Global Health and International Law: having been to Honduras twice to build public health projects and conduct children’s health education workshops, she has developed a passion for health care as a human right.
Currently, she is in the process of developing a project aimed at strengthening Afghanistan’s agricultural sector through a unique change-based project. She recently served as an American Delegate at Northwestern University's Global Engagement Summit, in which she further developed her project proposal.
Victoria Lowerson
Victoria is a Ph.D. student in the department of Planning, Policy, and Design at the University of California, Irvine. She holds a Master's of Public Health with an emphasis on Urbanism and the Built Environment from Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, and a Bachelor's degree in Social Studies of Medicine from McGill University in Montreal, Canada. Her master's thesis was titled, "The Impact of the Local Social Ecology on Accessing Healthy Foods." Broadly, her research interests are on the intersection of the built and social environment and its relationship with community health and social justice. She is passionate about community based research, addressing health disparities and connecting local contexts with macro policy issues.
Steven Luminelli
Steven majored in Political Science with a focus on International Political Economics at UC Irvine and graduated in June, 2011. By researching for the UCI Center for Unconventional Security Affairs (CUSA), he hopes to better understand the global community that is inflicted by essential human rights needs. In the next few years he hopes to accomplish research on health and basic standards of living. Steven would like examine struggling communities in order to grasp what it takes to create sustainable and successful generations. His goals include hands on experience through travel and international community work.
Natalia Milovantseva
Natalia Milovantseva is a Ph.D. candidate in Social Ecology with a concentration in Environmental Analysis and Design. She holds two degrees from UCI: BA summa cum luade in International Studies specializing on Europe with a minor in Psychology Social Behavior, and MA in Demographic and Social Analysis. Natalia is interested in the links between digital-age consumption and climate change and public health outcomes, as well as corporate engagement in issues of sustainability and environmental responsibility. Her dissertation research, supported by Research and Education in Green Materials (REGM) pre-doctoral fellowship, is aimed at better understanding factors that influence policy initiatives intended to encourage reuse of valuable recourses, reduce waste, and protect the public from the impacts of toxic chemicals, both locally and globally. In the fall Natalia will be attending an international program in The Netherlands and Belgium designed to identify and tackle complexities of closing resource loops, after which she will participate in the World Resources Forum 2011 in Davos, Switzerland.
Crystal Murphy Morgan
Crystal Murphy Morgan is a Ph.D. student in the department of Planning, Policy & Design at the University of California, Irvine. She is a Research Associate at the Center for Unconventional Security affairs and is a Council member for the Association of Graduate Students for the School of Social Ecology. She holds a Master's in Urban and Regional Planning from UCI, and a Bachelor's degree in Spanish, with high honors, and a minor in Cultural Anthropology from Vanguard University. Broadly, she is interested in the policies that shape community-based planning processes. She is passionate about the rudiments behind sustainable ways for people to thrive in conflicted states. Her current research focuses on microfinance provision for conflict affected displacement, specifically camp-dwelling refugees and internally displaced people. She has worked the past several summers in Northern Uganda, performing research for Uganda Microfinance Limited, and volunteering with community development NGOs.
Elizabeth Schwartz
Brittany Schick, worked with CUSA on a project entitled "The Changing Roles and Methods of U.S. Military Intelligence." Schick, a UCI Political Science major was honored for her academics, leadership, and community service by being awarded a Mitchell Scholarship. As a Mitchell Scholar, Brittany will study for a Master's degree in International Relations at Dublin City University where she will explore Northern Ireland's experiences dealing with terrorism. Brittany is the first UCI student to be chosen for this honor.
Jinsuhk Suh
Doctoral Student in Planning, Policy, and Design, University of California, Irvine
Research Interests:Water Resources Management and Water Policy Governance; Urban water management, including democratic, decentralized “bottom-up” approach and public participation - “place-based activism” in decision-making process, especially related to urban water development and political power; Urban Development and Environmental Policy
Janelle Watson
Research Assistant (Invisible Children)
Janelle is a Political Science and Sociology undergraduate UCI. She is a research associate for the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) where she conducts studies on earthquake preparedness and sustainability of local school buildings. She is also involved in Global Connect, where she helped edit the “Project of Change” textbook which local Orange County schools use in the classroom. Through Global Connect, she addressed global issues such as poverty and hunger, gender equity, natural disasters and diseases that affect populations internationally, which widened her outlook on public attitudes and disparity. Jannelle is interested in the global impact of social movements on populations of people, and the factors that contribute to globalization of NGO’s. She plans to continue her studies in Public Policy and Law upon graduation.
Lee Yates
Lead Research Assistant (Affect to Action)
Lee Yates is a fourth year undergraduate at UC Irvine, studying Psychology and Social Behavior. He also has taken a series of Film and Media Studies courses for his own interest. With his combination of psychology and film education, Lee is currently assisting on a project at the Transformational Media Lab concerning how documentary films specifically effect and persuade audiences. He will also be an intern at the Drake Institute of Behavioral Medicine in the Fall of 2011. He aims to continue his studies in graduate school soon after his graduation next March.
Former Student Research Associates
Jesse Baker
Jesse Baker earned his PhD in the department of Planning, Policy, and Design's environmental policy track. He received his bachelor's degree in anthropology from Colorado State University, where he was the director of an intensive twelve-week academic field study program in Belize, centered on issues surrounding integrated natural resource management in the developing world. Jesse's research explores the social and environmental impacts of western-based consumer behavior, and how they affect human security. His dissertation is a qualitative analysis of the local, regional, and global implications of oil nationalization in Venezuela. Jesse was also invited on an expedition to Antarctica in March of 2009 to study issues of globalization through the various effects that can be seen in Antarctica. This expedition focused on global climate change, alternative energy use, and international political cooperation.
Candice Carr Kelman
Candice Carr Kelman earned her PhD in 2010 from the Department of Planning, Policy and Design, with a concentration in Environmental Policy. She also completed a Master of Arts degree in Social Ecology in 2008. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Environmental Policy from the University of North Carolina at Asheville, graduating Cum Laude, with minors in Political Science and International Studies. Candice's interests are in the fields of environment and development studies, with a focus on sustainable development and biodiversity conservation. Her dissertation field research investigated the legacies of integrated conservation and development projects (ICDPs) at four national parks in Indonesia. Her findings include support for the idea that human development activities undertaken in the ICDPs were more compatible with conservation efforts than economic development activities. In addition, efforts at co-management with indigenous peoples at one park led to increased local support for the park, while lax law enforcement regarding in-migrants and encroachment at other parks led to eroded support for the park both locally and nationally. Key recommendations for good governance of parks include recognition of indigenous rights through co-management combined with strengthened law enforcement. Candice is currently teaching Introduction to Corporate Social Responsibility, Sustainability and Green Business through the UCI Extension. It is a required course for the Certificate in Sustainability Leadership, and the first course in the program to be approved by the US Green Building Council as continuing education for LEED Accredited Professionals.
Shannon Curry
Shannon Curry reports that since completing her B.A. at UCI, which included a UROP research project and fieldwork in Peru, she went on to complete a Masters in Clinical Psych at Pepperdine while working as a research assistant for Pepperdine Professor and head of the California Psych Association, Miguel Gallardo, Psy.D. Her research with Miguel has focused on Latino issues and cultural sensitivity and competency in therapy, and she continues her emphasis on Peruvian culture and history in psychology. Last year she started Pepperdine's doctoral program as well.
Shannon is also working with the Peruvian American Medical Society (PAMS), a non-profit medical group which specializes in bringing care to impoverished areas of Peru. During the summer of 2008, Shannon took part in a PAMS trip to the Hospital Regionale in Ayacucho. She was posted in "psych triage" where she ran solution-focused and behavioral therapy sessions.
Dina Giannikopoulos
Tova Handelman
Tova received special recognition for multidisciplinary achievement in June of 2010 for her study of piracy off the coast of Somalia, and received her undergraduate degree from the social ecology honors program in June 2010. Tova was also featured by UCI for her work on plastic debris in the Pacific Ocean.
Samantha Lane
Samantha Lane is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Criminology, Law & Society at the University of California, Irvine and a research associate with the Center for Unconventional Security Affairs. Sam received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology and minor in English from UCLA, cum laude, in 2001. Her research interests include law, language, justice and reconciliation, war crimes, genocide, and human security. She is currently working on a project on online social networking sites, privacy, law, and identity, as well as a forthcoming book chapter on women, law, justice, and genocide in Rwanda. Her proposed dissertation research examines the everyday impact of different levels of law in providing justice locally for women survivors of sexual assault during the Rwandan genocide.
P. Brian Fisher
P. Brian Fisher is a Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science at the University of California, Irvine. Brian's research and teaching examine fundamental issues at the intersection of justice, ecological change, and vulnerability in a policy context. He is particularly interested in local empowerment and sustainability in the face of global environmental change-especially in vulnerable communities. His work employs a hybridity of methodologies and often utilizes transnational justice and human security as organizing concepts in examining environmental and climate policy. Learn more about Brian's work at his website.
Leah M. Fraser
Leah M. Fraser, PhD is currently Policy Director for Latino Health Access. She received her Ph.D. in the Department of Political Science at UCI in 2004. Leah's graduate work has concentrated on American public policy and minority politics. Leah has been the recipient of a number of grants, including a UCI Trans-disciplinary Tobacco University Research Collaborative Grant 2003 to support research on the California's Proposition 10's funding of health programs, and a UCI Latin American Studies Summer Research Grant in 2003 to support field research on migrant farmworkers' health and justice in Costa Rica. In 2003, Leah was awarded the Eckstein Scholar Award in recognition for achieving excellence in her graduate studies program since candidacy.
Heather Goldsworthy Davila
Heather Goldsworthy received her Doctorate in Social Ecology from the University of California at Irvine in 2010, with graduate emphases in Environmental Analysis and Design and Feminist Studies. She received her Bachelor of Science in Environmental Science and minor in Ecology with honors from Washington State University with in 2002. Her past research has explored the organizational, institutional, and environmental aspects of microfinance as a tool of poverty alleviation in the developing world, as well as the gender dimensions of environmental security.
Heather is currently a Research Fellow for The GreenTech Fund, a triple-bottom-line impact investing fund based in Newport Beach. Her research with the Fund will examine the processes and outcomes of an integrated approach to rural development that brings physical utilities (renewable power, water, and sewer systems) and digital utilities to rural villages in India. The goal is to determine the economic, social, and environmental impacts generated by this integrated approach using empirical data.
Kelsey Meagher
Kelsey Meagher received her bachelor's degree from the department of Cognitive Sciences. During her junior year, she was selected to be a Sustainable Agrifood Systems (SAS) Fellow through the Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems (CASFS) at UC Santa Cruz. She used her fellowship to assess the UC Irvine food system in hopes of discovering whether it can be sustained by the local community. Kelsey also determined the extent to which UC Irvine's food system supports the welfare of food producers, consumers, and the environment. Kelsey will be attending graduate school at the University of California, Davis in the Fall in hopes of securing a career in research or academia.
Lauren Sanne
Lauren Sanne graduated cum laude from UCI in 2005 with a bachelor of arts in International Studies and a Minor in Spanish. During the 2004-05 school year she worked on her International Studies honors senior thesis under Dr Richard Matthew. She researched the US's HIV/AIDS prevention policies abroad, specifically in Africa. The thesis is entitled "The ABC's of the US's HIV/AIDS Prevention Policy in Africa." Lauren is interested in working on international environmental issues or human rights laws. She has been accepted into the UCDC program in Washington DC this coming fall, where she will be interning for three months and then begin looking for a job. Lauren has plans to eventually return to graduate school in a few years.
Brittany Schick
Brittany Schick, worked with CUSA on a project entitled "The Changing Roles and Methods of U.S. Military Intelligence." Schick, a UCI Political Science major was honored for her academics, leadership, and community service by being awarded a Mitchell Scholarship. As a Mitchell Scholar, Brittany will study for a Master's degree in International Relations at Dublin City University where she will explore Northern Ireland's experiences dealing with terrorism. Brittany is the first UCI student to be chosen for this honor.
Darlene Tong
Darlene Tong, received her Bachelor's Degree from UCI in 2005. She was a UROP Fellow and worked with CUSA on a research project on "U.S. Approach to Human Trafficking-Abroad and at Home."
Tammy Tsunoda
Hai Vo
Hai Vo is a Social Ecology undergraduate studying sustainable food systems. During his senior year, Hai was chosen to be a UC Sustainable Agrifood Systems (SAS) Fellow sponsored by UC Santa Cruz's Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems (CASFS). As part of his fellowship, he will conduct a food assessment of UC Irvine that seeks to discover whether its dining system can be sustained by the local Orange County and Southern California communities. Hai loves to cook, and he is oftentimes found using the best ingredients from local farms for his culinary delights. Post-graduation plans include farm apprenticeships, graduate programs in community nutrition, and advocating for real food. In 2009, Hai was selected as a winner of a 2009 Brower Youth Award
Daniel Wehrenfennig
Daniel Wehrenfennig received a 2005-2006 CAHS Fellowship for his project titled, "Communication and Human Security: New Opportunities and Challenges in the Network Society." This fellowship allowed him to conduct field research in Northern Ireland and Israel/Palestine. As a Ph.D. student in political science at UC Irvine, Daniel specialized in international relations. He was a board member of the Center for Citizen Peacebuilding and an affiliate of the Center for Global Peace and Conflict Studies. Daniel's recent work has been published by Peace Review and the University of California Press. Daniel also developed communications seminars as a consultant for major international companies such as Vodafone and Pilkington and organizes a civic education film documentary project in Malawi.
Omar Yousef