My Art Journal 🎨
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In high school, I started bullet journaling to keep track of my life and discovered my love for scrapbooking. When the world was turned upside down during the pandemic, I picked up art journaling as a creative outlet. I found solace in solitude after I began sharing my art online and experimenting with new mediums.
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Stanford Alumni in Sustainability 🌲SAS is an impact network that leverages its privilege for social, ecological, and economic good. As a co-founder, I drew inspiration from the 20th year anniversary of SSS in 2020 and am motivated to create a long-lasting community that collectively works towards a sustainable future. The alumni organization focuses on both personal and professional development through mentorship, educational events, and alumni engagement. We hope to build an intergenerational, interdisciplinary, and international community that channels our energy across disciplines to collaborate on climate solutions.
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Students for a Sustainable Stanford 🌱Established in 2000, SSS is Stanford's oldest and largest sustainability student organization. As Financial Officer (2020-21) and Co-President (2021-22), I have grown immensely from the processes of campus engagement, event organizing, and collaborative teamwork. While navigating the club under virtual and hybrid formats, my team had to stay adaptive to uncertain circumstances during the pandemic and heavily emphasized community bonding. SSS provides students with hands-on projects and opportunities to engage in a breadth of issues, including climate advocacy, education, environmental justice, sustainable transportation, and more. As the umbrella organization, SSS plays an integral role in a broader ecosystem of sustainability-minded organizations. We actively interface with Stanford's administration, other on-campus groups and initiatives, and local community partners.
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Scope 3 Working Group 🛫As of 2021, Stanford University has reduced its Scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions by 80%. In order to reach its ambitions of becoming a carbon neutral campus by 2050, the Board of Trustees and the Vice President of Business Affairs established the Scope 3 Emissions Program in June 2020. Scope 3 emissions, as defined by the GHG Protocol, include various emissions categories embedded in the supply chain from air travel to capital assets. The program's objectives are to (1) reduce, mitigate, or offset Stanford’s Scope 3 emissions to the maximum extent possible and (2) charter a path for other institutions address their own Scope 3 emissions through communications, engagement, and collaboration. Alongside the program, there is a Scope 3 Working Group consisting of faculty and staff members that offer guidance on the coverage, methodology, and mitigation pathways of emissions. As the undergraduate representative, I participated in insitutional discussions and directed a Student Working Group. The student group researched the pilot of a carbon price on business travel, presented our findings to faculty, and conducted a survey on 2021-22 Student Travel that gathered 1,200+ responses.
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Carbon Pricing Endorsement 📢Citizens' Climate Lobby is a bipartisan grassroots non-profit focused on enacting the Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act (HR763) and building political will for climate solutions. From 2020 to 2021, I volunteered with the local Bay Area chapter, shared local news about climate change, published letters-to-the-editors, and launched my own campaign on campus. The campaign's goal was for Stanford University's president, Marc Tessier-Lavigne, to take a stance on climate policy and sign a letter of support for a national carbon price, which garnered support from 50 Stanford staff/faculty members and Congresswoman Anna Eshoo.
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Deliberative Polling Projects 💭Deliberative polling is the process of surveying a representative sample of citizens, giving them the opportunity to become educated on various political issues through moderated discussions and plenary sessions, and measuring their shifts in opinions. As a research assistant at the Center for Deliberative Democracy, I worked on a few main projects. One project looked at the future of solar energy in Hong Kong and Tokyo. Another project, called "Young Democracy at Home," conducted a public opinion poll with over 300 high school students on economic and healthcare policy reforms. The experience sparked my desire to effectively communicate policy to the general public.
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