Profiles
2024 Bearhs Environmental Leadership Program participant Ali Odeh leads water service providers in Palestine.
Spring 2025
Bhavna Shamasunder, PhD '11 Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, is a leading expert in environmental justice and on cumulative burden.
Fall 2024
As the USA executive director of the Human Needs Project, Kristina Yarmolich BS ’21 Conservation and Resource Studies, develops partnerships and sustainable programs that provide Kenyans with essential infrastructure.
Fall 2024
Kass Green, BS ’74 Forestry, champions the application of Geographic Information Systems and remote-sensing technologies to identify, quantify, and monitor natural resources.
Spring 2024
Michael Colvin, BS ’05 Environmental Economics and Policy ’07 Master of Public Policy, is working to ensure affordable, clean, and safe energy for all Californians.
Fall 2023
Fourth-year Vishal Subramanyan’s photos capture the wonder of wildlife and emphasize the importance of conservation.
Fall 2023
Rebecca Peters, BS ’14 Society and Environment, has been a leader working to increase water access around the world since her time at Berkeley.
Spring 2023
Drew Hendrickson (BS ’19 Microbial Biology and Chemical Biology) is passionate about engineering enzymes to break down toxins and restore degraded landscapes.
Fall 2022
PhD Candidate Robin Lopez is passionate about science and his community.
Spring 2022
Alena Morales (BS ’21, Nutritional Sciences and Toxicology-Dietetics) believes that disability justice and dietetics should be more closely intertwined.
Spring 2022
Dr. Rosalía Mendoza (BS/BA 1997 Entomology and Integrative Biology) lives her commitment to serve the marginalized in society.
Fall 2021
Louise Bedsworth (PhD '02 Energy & Resources) is advancing equitable, sustainable development as the executive director of the California Strategic Growth Council.
Spring 2021
Alumna Jen Guyton (BS '10 Conservation and Resource Studies) is a photographer whose work raises crucial awareness about conservation.
Fall 2020
2017 Master of Development Practice alumnus Rishi Khalsa applies his communication skills in the public sector.
Spring 2020
Alumna Dawn Wyllie (BS 1978, Conservation of Natural Resources) served Native people as a physician and policy leader.
Fall 2019
Steven Lee (PhD 1990, Molecular and Physiological Plant Biology) is at the forefront of forensics.
Fall 2019
The alumnus and Coopertive Extension Specialist is on a mission to enlist citizen scientists to stomp out sudden oak death in California.
Spring 2019
Tessa Emmer and Avery Resor are on a mission to sell sustainably harvested seaweed.
Fall 2018
The College of Natural Resources has a new dean, plant ecologist and evolutionary biologist David Ackerly.
Fall 2018
Jim Lugg's (BS 1956, Soil Science) career in agriculture has earned him a reputation as one of the inventors of the modern salad.
Fall 2017