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PROJECT: Intersections of Race, Affect and Environmental Action
FACULTY MENTOR: Flora Lu

Laura Galanos
Critical Race & Ethnic Studies/Economics
Paradyse Oakley
Critical Race & Ethnic Studies/Community Studies/PoliticsPROJECT: Solar Geoengineering Governance: Justice for Who?
FACULTY MENTOR: Sikina Jinnah

Arien Hernandez
Environmental StudiesPROJECT: Language Comprehension and Cognitive Control
FACULTY MENTOR: Megan Boudewyn

Lea Toledo
Cognitive SciencePROJECT: Gender Identity and Social Media Use Among LGBTQIA+ Adolscents
FACULTY MENTOR: Adriana Manago

Gabriella Garcia
PsychologyPROJECT: Education’s Surveillance Quandry: Exploring the Cost vs. Convenience of Post-COVID Technology Application
FACULTY MENTOR: Nolan Higdon

Luyue Zhang
Education and Sociology
Maria Cecilia Soto
Applied Linguistics and Multilingualism/TESOL & Linguistics
Joshua Garcia
Education, Democracy, and Justice
Alexandra Marie Santos
EducationPROJECT: Developing an SES Framework for Restoration Decision-Making Under Climate Change
FACULTY MENTOR: Carrie Pomeroy

Carly McCaw
PsychologyPROJECT: The “Hot Cheeto Girl”: Gender Performance and Latina Mobility
FACULTY MENTOR: Julie Bettie

Leslie Abigail Marquez
Community Studies
Daniela Obeso
Psychology
Lizeth Guadalupe Calderon Cervantes
Legal Studies
Saul Ordaz
SociologyPROJECT: Collective Temporal Thought
FACULTY MENTOR: Jeremy Yamashiro

Gavin Provencio
Cognitive Science
Lucinda Veloz
Psychology
Itzia Duque Cordova
PsychologyPROJECT: Social Impact of COVID-19 Study: Understanding Pandemic Loss and Grief
FACULTY MENTOR: Alicia Riley

Eileen Amador
Legal Studies and GISESPROJECT: EEG Replication Project
FACULTY MENTOR: Liv Hoversten

Mia Laskan
Cognitive SciencePROJECT: Day-to-Day Teacher Activism for Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
FACULTY MENTOR: Josephine Pham

Autumn Montez
Intensive Psychology
Juli Sofijski
SociologyPROJECT: We Belong: Collaboration for Community-Engaged Research and Immigrant Justice
FACULTY MENTOR: Steve McKay

Crystal Alvarez Castillo
Sociology
Alysia Leon
SociologyPROJECT: Building Diversity in Sociology and Science, Technology, and Society Studies
FACULTY MENTOR: James Doucet-Battle

Andrea Asher
Sociology/Biology
Dimitri Cardona
SociologyPROJECT: Assessing Habitat Use by Mammals and Birds in Restored Tropical Forest
FACULTY MENTOR: Karen Holl

Selma Ruiz
Environmental Studies
Karla Vaca
Environmental Studies/BiologyPROJECT: Building Capacity for Mitigating the Climate Crisis
FACULTY MENTOR: Michael Loik

Daisy Ramirez
Undeclared
Azarely Bedolla
Environmental Studies/Environmental SciencesPROJECT: Intersectionality, Close Relationships, and Sense of Belonging in First-Generation College Students
FACULTY MENTOR: Margarita Azmitia

Isabelle Vo
Psychology
Kayla Mendoza
Sociology/Legal StudiesPROJECT: Family Planning Incentives and Child Health: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
FACULTY MENTOR: Ariel Zucker
