Sarah Bumby is a second-year Bren student specializing in Water Resources Management. Her career interests lie in water quality, pollution prevention and remediation technologies, and life cycle assessment. Sarah recently completed her Master’s Thesis Group Project, Life Cycle Assessment of overhead versus underground primary power distribution in Southern California, and is looking forward to presenting her group’s results at the 2009 IEEE International

Symposium on Sustainable Systems and Technology. She is actively involved in developing a spreadsheet model for Malcolm-Pirnie, Inc. that will evaluate the sustainability of three remediation strategies based on cost, energy usage, water usage, CO2 emissions, and other factors concerning sustainability. Prior to coming to Bren, Sarah was a staff environmental scientist for Assessco, Inc. in Woodland Hills, CA and an account manager and environmental assessor for JMK Environmental Solutions in nearby San Fernando. Ms. Bumby graduated from Tulane University’s Newcomb College with a BS in Anthropology, a second major in Environmental Science, and a minor in Earth Science.

Second-year MESM student, Katya Druzhinina (2009), was awarded a

2007-2009 Fulbright Scholarship to attend the Bren School. Katya recently completed her Master’s Thesis Group Project, Life Cycle Assessment of overhead versus underground primary power distribution in Southern California, and is looking forward to presenting her group project’s results at the 2009 IEEE International Symposium on Sustainable Systems and Technology. Prior to coming to Bren, she gained volunteer and international professional experience during her work with the Sovzond Company in Moscow and the

Roerich Memorial Trust in India. Katya did her undergraduate work at Dubna State University (2006) in Russia, obtaining B.A.s in Environmental Science & Resource Efficiency, and Remote Sensing. Katya’s career interests lie in international conservation planning; remote sensing for land use and conservation; industrial ecology and Life Cycle Assessment; energy efficiency and consumption reduction.

Rebe Feraldi is in her second year at the Donald Bren Graduate School of Environmental Science & Management. She specializes in Corporate Environmental Management and Pollution Prevention. Her career interests lie in technical, economic and policy analysis for pollution prevention using Cost-Benefit Analysis, Resource Productivity concepts, and Industrial Ecology tools such as Life Cycle Assessment, Material Flow Analysis and Green Supply Chain Management. Recently, she has completed her Master’s Thesis Group

Project, Life Cycle Assessment of overhead versus underground primary power distribution in Southern California and will present the results with her colleagues at the 2009 IEEE International Symposium on Sustainable Systems and Technology and the 2009 International Symposium of Industrial Ecology for Young Professionals. Last summer, Rebe worked as an intern with ArcelorMittal Steel Corporation in France to develop a guide for the application of Consequential Life Cycle Assessment to large, industrial-scale material substitutions. Before attending the Bren School, Ms. Feraldi directed a water quality laboratory in Lompoc, California. She has a B.S. in Chemistry with a minor in Environmental Science & Engineering from the Colorado School of

Mines has served with the United States Peace Corps.

Danae Werthmann is a second-year master’s student at the Donald Bren School of Environmental Science and Management. She is specializing in Political Economy of the Environment, with an emphasis in economics and water resources. She will be presenting her master’s thesis group project, Life Cycle Assessment of overhead versus underground primary power distribution in Southern California, with her fellow group project members at the 2009 IEEE

International Symposium on Sustainable Systems and Technology. Her career aspirations are to be an intermediary between the public, scientists, and policymakers, a mediator for public participation in the decision-making process, or a project manager of water supply and conservation. This past summer, she worked for Resources for the Future, as a Climate Change Intern, researching various climate change policies and measures and trying to develop a single metric to quantify all climate change policies and measures. Danae completed her undergraduate work at California State University, Long Beach, obtaining B.A.s in Environmental Science and Policy and Political Science. She has previously worked for CH2M Hill at Edwards Air Force Base and for Algalita Marine Research Foundation, a Long Beach-based non-profit dedicated to protecting the marine environment.