Vanessa (Vané) grew up in Oxnard, California. She received her B.S in Environmental Science with minors in Spanish and Computer Information Systems from California Lutheran University. She has experience working with non-profit organizations that focuses on environmental and social injustices as well as farm-worker rights in Ventura County. She has worked as an intern for the County of Ventura within the Sustainability Division as a Public Service Intern and was an intern for the U.S Department of Energy as an Energy Justice Intern. Some of her career goals is to work in the public sector either for the federal or local government. One of her professional goals is to publish a peer-reviewed article and creating a non-profit that would help high schools in low-income communities excel in STEM subjects. She currently works for RTD as the Carbon/Energy Research Intern where she partakes in carbon removal research. Currently, she is writing a white paper on direct air capture with a socioeconomic analysis within the Central Valley/SJ Delta.
Email : vanessa@restorethedelta.org