Vanessa Buenrostro

Vanessa Buenrostro

Position Title
First-year student
EPM Diversity Committee

  • Environmental Policy & Management
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Bio
Vanessa also known as Vane for short, 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 within 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 within public service either for the federal government or local while creating a non-profit of her own that would help high schools within low-income communities excel in STEM subjects.