Shuniqua Guss serves as CivicSpark Fellow Support Specialist. Following two AmeriCorps service years with City Year Boston, and a third service year with the American Red Cross in Baton Rouge as a National Preparedness and Response Corps member, she has focused on building on her Human Resources profile. As a first-year Corps Member with CYB,…

Evan Pierce joins the CivicWell team with a wealth of experience in conservation projects andcommunity engagement. Since his time as a member of the 2014-15 CivicSpark cohort in theSierra Nevada region, Evan has spent much of his career engaging young people in hands-onconservation programs on public lands and promoting recreation access for underservedcommunities in South…

Jackie is a first-year human geography graduate student at San Diego State University, where she is working on gathering BIPOC perceptions, narratives, and memories on green spaces for her thesis. She is also a teaching assistant for the geography department, teaching physical geography in a laboratory setting for undergraduate students. Jackie has a BA in…

Originally from the Inland Empire, Aman graduated from the University of California, Santa Barbara with a BS in Environmental Studies with an emphasis in Environmental Impact Analysis. His first fellowship term was with San Bernardino County Transit Authority, where he assisted with the Resilient IE Climate Adaptation Toolkit. He then spent a second term with Southern California Association of…

Emmanuel is passionate about the intersection of data science and housing policy. He hopes to build transparent and reproducible systems of analysis for local governments so that staff can decrease time in the office and increase time with community members. He believes that the only success you can achieve is the one you are able…

Naomi Lopez was working for the County of Orange as an Affordable Housing Specialist in their Housing and Community Development Department. Her role was to push for affordable housing to be expanded throughout the region by taking a regional approach at a local and legislative level. The main responsibilities were project management and tracking, interpreting…

Emily Ontiveros is pursuing her Master’s in Landscape Architecture at the University of New Mexico. She plans to focus her research on river restoration design through equitable, watershed-based approaches to stewardship. As a 2019-2020 CivicSpark Fellow, Emily served with the California Department of Water Resources in Sacramento. She worked within the Office of the Tribal…

Sam currently works for Ascent Environmental in the Lake Tahoe region. As a Climate Change Analyst, he primarily works with local governments and other public agencies on climate mitigation and resiliency projects, which include greenhouse gas emissions inventories and forecasts, climate action plans, and climate adaptation plans. Sam strengthened his skills with these types of…

In 2019-2020, Lauren served as a Climate Fellow with the Butte County Department of Development Services to set up a framework that would allow community members and other stakeholders to collaborate for climate change adaptation and mitigation policies for the unincorporated areas of Butte County. There she focused heavily on close engagement with various community…