ABOUT
OUR PEOPLE
welcome to our team
The Green Campus Action Plan is a committee of undergraduate students from all majors dedicated to pursuing and advancing sustainability on-campus through a variety of pathways, including advocacy, grants, and programs. We are excited to welcome our 2022-2023 team!
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Our application Process
Applications to apply open in the Summer Quarter.
We are no longer recruiting committee members and interns*. All undergraduate students interested in joining are encouraged to apply and get involved in the next cycle!
The application deadline was on July 15th, 2022.
*Paid position
our 2022-2023 committee
Christopher Chung
Committee Member
Pronouns: He/Him
Major: Psychology/ Business
Christopher is pursuing a career with financial success. He is passionate about helping others and just making things easier for those he cares about.
Alondra Martinez Marquez
Vice President of Sustainability and Director of GCAP
Pronouns: She/Her
Major: Environmental Engineering
Alondra plans to work in the air quality sector, specifically with carbon capturing technology.
She is the most excited about working towards a fossil fuel free campus. With the climate crisis worsening, Alondra believes that UCR can do its part by creating a fossil fuel free campus instead of using carbon offsets.
Ashley Mejia
Programming Director
Pronouns: She/Her
Major: Sustainability Studies
Minor: Sociology
Ashley is preparing for a career as a sustainability consultant. She plans to work on the food insecurity UCR students face. An issue Ashley is passionate about is informing others about environmental racism and the impact it has on BIPOC.
José Manuel Rodriguez
Policy Director
Pronouns: He/Him
Major: Political Science
Minor: in Public Policy
José wants to create policy that betters low-income communities and provides equal protection to all members of society. He would also like to work with an international agency to better conditions throughout the world. He is passionate about environmental justice in low-income communities and wants to work to eliminate the use of pesticides globally that impact farmers and crop pickers.
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Ellen Nguyen
Vice Chair
Pronouns: She/Her
Major: Environmental Science
Ellen is working towards a career as a sustainability officer to focus on corporate responsibility and sustainability. Environmental Justice is the sector of climate change that Ellen is most passionate about as she grew up in a community where she has seen the first-hand impacts of environmental racism, along with the very harsh health effects that this issue has on communities of color.
Kathryn Wen
Committee Member & Marketing Specialist
Pronouns: She/Her
Major: Psychology
One of Kathryn's goals this year is to teach students how small lifestyle changes can help reduce food, plastic, water, and energy waste.
Andrea Delgado
Committee Member
Pronouns: She/Her
Major: Environmental Science
Andrea aims to engage in sustainable urban development in underserved regions. She desires to engage in research that converts data into actionable information to advocate for planetary and human health.
Andrea is passionate about environmental justice and climate resiliency. She aspires to help cultivate a green and equitable future that protects vital atmospheric and hydrologic resources. She hopes to engage in efforts to decrease anthropogenic impacts on the environment while minimizing community vulnerability to poor urban air quality.
Shukan Shah
CNAS Senator
Pronouns: She/Her
Major: Biology
Shukan is preparing for a career as a dentist and aims to open her own practice. As a senator, she wants to work on reforming sustainability policies at UCR. Shukan would like to be the voice for the students and GCAP. One issue she is extremely passionate about is teaching people about overconsumption and fast fashion.
Alexander Hunt
BCOE Senator
Pronouns: He/Him
Major: Mechanical Engineering
Alexander is preparing for a career in Engineering Program Manegment. One goal in his position is to push the school to be more carbon neutral.
2021-2022 GCAP Committee
Alondra Martinez
Vice President of Sustainability
Green Campus Action Plan Director
Shraddha Bhonsle
Program Director
Cindy Pace
Policy Director
Ashley Perez
Vice Chair
Katie Wen
Committee Member
Sam Berdichevskiy
Intern
Valeria Velasco
Intern
Vidhya Kumaraswamy
Committee Member
Kennedy Lincoln
Committee Member
Hannah Renée O’Brien
Committee Member
Ellen Nguyen
Intern
Purnima Qamar
Intern
Guohang "Henry" Zhang
Intern
2020-2021 GCAP Committee
Vanessa Gomez-Alvarado
Vice President of Sustainability
Green Campus Action Plan Director
Tori Kim
Program Director
Leo Ballesteros
ASUCR Senator and Committee Member
Hannah Renée O’Brien
Policy Director
Alondra Martinez
Vice Chair
Barry Liu
ASUCR Senator and Committee Member
Ariana Turner
Committee Member
Layvin Manghane
Committee Member
Kennedy Lincoln
Committee Member
Fadi Zaki
Committee Member, Finance
Cindy Pace
Committee Member
Magdelene Lai
Intern
Purnima Qamar
Intern
Leslie Rendon
Intern
2019-2020 GCAP Committee
