Team Footprint
From left to right: Matt Valdin, Julie Holst, Ariana Arcenas, Takuma Ono
Ariana Arcenas - Resume
Ariana Arcenas earned a BA in Human Biology and a BA in Psychology from Brown University in 2006. Before joining the Bren School, she volunteered in Eastern Africa promoting community based marine conservation. She then spent a year managing an environmental program for a SCUBA diving company. At Bren, she is specializing in Political Economy of the Environment and Coastal Marine Resource Management. Ariana is interested in environmental mediation, public participation, and community relations. Over the summer of 2009 she will be completing an internship with Katz & Associates in pursuit of her interests. In her free time, Ariana enjoys SCUBA diving, playing Ultimate Frisbee, and riding horses.
Julie Holst - Resume
Julie Holst received her bachelor's degree in Environmental Studies from University of California, Santa Barbara in 2008. She immediately continued her education as a graduate student at UCSB’s Bren School to earn her Master's degree in Environmental Science and Management. At Bren, Julie specializes in Corporate Environmental Management as well as Pollution Prevention and Remediation. Specific topics of interest include Life Cycle Management, Transportation Efficiency, and Resource Productivity. To help support Julie through her education, she teaches piano and voice to students of all ages and experience levels at her self-founded studio – a job she enjoys very much. She is also an instrument rated pilot and loves to fly in her spare time.
Takuma Ono - Resume
Takuma Ono received a degree in Bachelor of Sciences in Biology at Indiana University, Bloominton. After graduating with honors, multiple minors, and Phi Beta Kappa, he spent two years as an analytical chemist. He is currently attending Bren School with a focus on Corporate Environmental Management. Topics of interest include resource productivity, life cycle assessment, industrial ecology, energy efficiency, and renewable energy. Takuma worked as a research intern at Environmental Defense Fund in San Francisco this summer, researching the feasibility of carbon markets to fund ocean energy projects in developing island nations. His favorite hobbies are playing music with his friends and freshwater fishing.
Matt Valdin - Resume
Matt Valdin graduated Cum Laude from Santa Clara University in 2005 with a Bachelor's degree in Environmental Science and Environmental Management. Afterwards, he worked for the Community Alliance with Family Farmers in their Sustainable Cotton Project. There, he recruited and worked with farmers to reduce pesticide use on cotton in the San Joaquin Valley. Afterwards, he moved to Sacramento and worked for the California Environmental Protection Agency. Working in the Department of Pesticide Regulations, he maintained and archived the agency's water, soil and air samples and cataloged the agency's Pesticide Use Report database. He currently is a Master's student at the Bren School where he focusing on Corporate Environmental Management. In his free time, he enjoys hikes, exploring downtown Santa Barbara and enjoying his favorite past-time, board games, with friends.
Faculty Advisor: Sarah Anderson - Homepage
Sarah Anderson arrived at the Bren School in 2007, bringing valuable expertise in political structures and dynamics, which profoundly influence environmental policy. She is also affiliated with the Department of Political Science. Her research interests include legislatures, political parties, public policy, statistical methods, and environmental politics. Those interests are reflected in her experience in Washington, D.C., where she worked as a U.S. congressman’s legislative assistant and also researched legislation to brief members of the House National Parks and Public Lands Subcommittee. Her current projects include an extension of her dissertation work, in which she analyzed (and found serious limitations to) the three main models for predicting government spending at the level of appropriations bills. In other projects, she is working to quantify the impact of environmentally concerned constituents on congressional voting, and seeking to determine the degree to which environmental voting, agricultural voting, and voting in other policy areas reflect more general voting in Congress. In addition to a Ph.D. in Political Science from Stanford University, she holds an M.S. in Economics from Stanford University and a B.S. in Political Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.