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Aarushi is responsible for sustainability-related data reporting such as the AASHE STARS report. In addition, she is focused on bringing innovative sustainability ideas to campus and finding ways to implement them.

Justin provides high level operational support to the CFO & Vice Chancellor and Capital Planning team. He is focused on driving productivity and increasing efficiency through strategic planning and effective communication.

Vanessa Le is a third-year undergraduate student majoring in Civil Engineering with a minor in Urban and Regional Planning. She is passionate about using engineering and planning to create functional spaces that serve communities while being considerate of their environmental impact. Her interests lie in sustainable development, efficient resource use, and understanding how design decisions can shape communities over time. As a Decarbonization Fellow with Campus Planning & Sustainability, Vanessa supports initiatives aimed at reducing campus emissions and advancing UCI’s sustainability efforts. Through this role, she hopes to gain experience in sustainability approaches and a stronger understanding of how environmental considerations can be integrated into engineering. She looks forward to applying what she learns to help build healthier, more resilient communities.

Mishae Bernardo is a fourth-year Civil Engineering student at the University of California, Irvine. She is interested in how infrastructure and community planning can create safer, more sustainable, and equitable places to live. As a Bonnie Reiss Leading Climate Fellow serving with Campus Planning & Sustainability, she is focusing on campus climate resilience. She is excited to contribute to projects and take initiative in connecting with students to explore sustainability, planning, and climate-related work. Through this experience, she hopes to learn more about how sustainability and planning can help create resilient communities while bringing her engineering background and interests into her work with CPS.

Reanah is a fourth-year undergraduate student double majoring in Criminology and Urban Studies. Her passion lies in urban planning and public policy, specifically when it comes to homelessness and its criminalization. Her dream would be to help design and construct cities where everyone has access to safe and affordable housing and essential resources. She wants to achieve this by helping create policies that properly address homelessness through support and opportunity rather than a system of punishment. As a Student GIS Analyst, Reanah will be helping UC Irvine Campus Planning & Sustainability maintain and update their campus GIS data, specifically mapping out updating the campus base maps to track waste docks.

Noah Padua is a second-year undergraduate Environmental Engineering student who has always loved content creation and hopes to use social media to push sustainability awareness. He is heavily involved in other campus-related sustainability efforts, serving as a board member for both Engineers for a Sustainable World and Birding at UCI. Noah will be holding the position as a Green Labs intern helping promote campus laboratory sustainability.

Khadidzha is a fourth-year undergraduate student majoring in Computer Science. With a passion for improving existing systems and creating solutions to problems, she hopes to help ensure that UC Irvine’s sustainability reporting meets current standards and that the processes for gathering and transferring data are strengthened. As the AASHE STARS Intern for the 2026–2027 academic year, Khadidzha will analyze UCI’s 2025 STARS submission, identify gaps in the university’s reporting framework, and develop tools and guidance to support data collection for the 2028 submission.

Pallavi is a second-year undergraduate student at UCI majoring in Applied and Computational Mathematics, with a focus on data analysis and quantitative methods. She is passionate about the environment and believes that real progress happens when institutions back up their intentions with data and follow-through, which is what draws her to this role with Campus Planning & Sustainability. In this role, Pallavi is analyzing UCI's past STARS submission, identifying where the university's sustainability reporting could improve, and helping build the tools and timelines that make future data collection stronger and more consistent. Through this work, Pallavi hopes to build skills in data analysis, strategic planning, and sustainability reporting while pushing UCI toward lasting environmental accountability.

Amanda McKay is a fourth-year undergraduate student majoring in Computer Engineering. She has always admired forests and marine life, and is passionate about protecting them. As an engineer, she’s determined to promote sustainable and eco-friendly solutions, especially with the rise of generative AI and its environmental impacts. Amanda is part of UCI’s e-HPVC project as its Electrical Lead, a project that explores an alternative, environmentally-conscious form of transportation. She is currently serving as a Bee/Tree Campus Intern through the Campus as a Living Lab (CLL) program, where she is gaining valuable experience in project planning and forming relationships to help incorporate sustainable and accessible solutions for real-world impact.

Ai is a third-year Earth System Science major with a specialization in Oceanography and a minor in Global Sustainability. Born and raised near the ocean, she has always been drawn to nature's beauty and its vital roles in supporting human systems. Passionate about water science, Ai currently works as a laboratory assistant at a water quality research lab in Costa Mesa and is an undergraduate researcher in the Walker Lab studying organic matter in coastal Greenland. She also values the impact education can have in raising sustainability awareness from a local to global level. As a Green Labs Student Ambassador, Ai hopes to be a liaison between faculty and CPS to promote sustainability in UCI’s world-renowned laboratories.