People, Center for Diverse Leadership in Science

Staff

Aradhna Tripati

Professor, Center for Diverse Leadership in Science Director & P.I.

Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences

Krystle Cobian

PhD Candidate

Graduate School of Education & Information Studies

Steve Lucarelli

Administrative Assistant

Center for Diverse Leadership in Science

Ingrid Maradiaga

Programs Officer

Center for Diverse Leadership in Science

Samuel Moore

Director for Partnerships and Advancement

Center for Diverse Leadership in Science

Darcy Ogden

Director of Strategy and Data

Center for Diverse Leadership in Science

Leadership

Aradhna Tripati

Professor, Center for Diverse Leadership in Science Director & P.I.

Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences

Krystle Cobian

PhD Candidate

Graduate School of Education & Information Studies

Sylvia Hurtado

Professor; Advisor, Center for Diverse Leadership in Science

Jennifer Jay

Chair, B.S. in Environmental Science; Professor

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Ingrid Maradiaga

Programs Officer

Center for Diverse Leadership in Science

Marilyn Raphael

Director, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability

Professor, Department of Geography

Shanna Shaked

Senior Associate Director for Physical Sciences Initiatives; Advisor, Center for Diverse Leadership in Science

Physics & Astronomy

Researchers

Richard Balbuena-Cano

Project Coordinator

Esperanza Community Housing

Chloe Belinsky

Scientific Aid/Naturalist

California Department of Fish and Wildlife

Jesse Bloom Bateman

Diversity Faculty Fellow and Assistant Professor

SUNY Cortland

Ileana Callejas

NASA Postdoctoral Fellow, Assistant Professor

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Biola University

Brandon Hunter

Civil and Environmental Engineer, Community-based Environmental Science Researcher

Natural Resources Defense Council, Center for Rural Enterprise & Environmental Justice, Duke University

Jennifer Lee

B.S. `23

Environmental Management & Protection, Cal Poly SLO

Jamie Lucarelli

Earth Scientist

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Zoe Pierrat

Postdoctoral Scholar

Jet Propulsion Laboratory Carbon Cycle and Ecosystems

Suzanne Pierre

Founder, Lead Investigator

Critical Ecology Lab

Cristian Román-Palacios

Assistant Professor of Practice

University of Arizona

Kimi Waite

Assistant Professor

California State University, Los Angeles Department of Child and Family Studies

Students

Naomi Adams

Institute of the Environment and Sustainability

Regina Adigwe

Institute of the Environment and Sustainability

Blanca Alvarez

Graduate Student

Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences

Alexandrea Arnold

Graduate Student

Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences

Hayley Bricker

Graduate Student

Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences

Gabriela Carr

Ph.D. Student

Institute of the Environment and Sustainability

Morgan Carrington

Graduate Student

University of Texas at Austin

Elijah Catalan

Institute of the Environment and Sustainability

Robert Dellinger

Graduate Student

California State University, Northridge

Kira Fish

Graduate Student

Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences

Kelli Fletcher

Institute of the Environment and Sustainability

Randy Flores

Graduate Student

Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences

Adiba Hassan

Graduate Student

Center for Diverse Leadership in Science

Yongjia He

Graduate Student

Chemistry and Biochemistry

Danielle Hoague

Institute of the Environment and Sustainability

Paige Hoel

Graduate Student

Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences

Musibau Francis Jimoh

Graduate Student

Materials Science and Engineering

Jade Knighton

Graduate Student

Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences

Flor Vanessa Maciel

Graduate Student

Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences

Madeleine Pacheco

Graduate Student

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Silvana Reid

Graduate Student

Chemistry and Biochemistry

De’Marcus Robinson

Graduate Student

Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences

Carolyn Rodriguez

Graduate Student

UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies

Daniel Sepulveda

Graduate Student

Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences

Taylorann Smith

Graduate Student

California State University, Northridge

Francisco Spaulding-Astudillo

Graduate Student

Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences

Hannah Tandy

Graduate Student

Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences

Felicie Trebian

Graduate Student

Navajo Technical University

Robert N. Ulrich

Ph.D Student

Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences

Deepshikha Upadhyay

Graduate Student

Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences

Tanner Waters

Institute of the Environment and Sustainability

Jason Williams

Graduate Student

Chemistry and Biochemistry

Board of Advisors

Toni Antonucci

Elizabeth M. Douvan Collegiate Professor of Psychology, Program Director and Research Professor in the Life Course Development Program at the Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan

Fredrick Anyanwu

Chief Development Officer

Center for Strategic and International Studies

Dayanni Bhagwandin

Graduate Student

Chemistry and Biochemistry

E. Felicia Brannon

Higher Education Advocate, Community Leader, and Mentor

Taj Eldridge

Senior Director of Investment, Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator

Catherine Flowers

Founder and Director, Center for Rural Enterprise and Environmental Justice; Professor of Practice, Duke University

Jody Giles

Director of Philanthropy

Catalyst Family Office

Mark Gold

Director of Water Scarcity Solutions, People & Communities Program, NRDC

Sekita Grant

Environmental Policy & Social Justice Strategist

Edward Greene

Former Secretary General Special Envoy for HIV, United Nations

James Jackson

Distinguished University Professor of Psychology, Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies, and research professor at the Institute for Social Research

University of Michigan

Claudia Mitchell-Kernan

Faculty Emeritus and former Vice Chancellor

Graduate Studies, UCLA

Glenn Prickett

Founder and Principal

Rock Creek Strategies, LLC

Belinda Tucker

Special Liaison for Faculty Development

UCLA

Monic Uriarte

Community Organizer and Health Promoter

Esperanza Community Housing Corporation

Kecia Washington

Director of Innovation

Los Angeles Department of Water and Power

Affiliates

Past Researchers

Past Students

The Center for Diverse Leadership in Science combines mentorship, financial support, and skills training. Our fellows work in diverse research teams and are part of a diverse community of scientists which fosters social belonging. As part of their participation, fellows engage in community outreach and serve as ambassadors, while the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability’s communications team works to amplify their voices.

Situated in Los Angeles, UCLA offers unparalleled opportunities for reaching diverse communities. With 224 languages spoken in the city, no majority population, and 40 % of its residents born outside the United States, it is hard to find a city anywhere in the world with such cultural and ethnic richness. Our Center’s faculty and students embrace and value this diversity, and have received national and international recognition for their efforts on behalf of diversity and the scientific breakthroughs it has enabled.