Scholarship Winners

Feliz Scholarship Winners

2008-09: Karen Medina
Throughout high school, Karen was involved with the San Diego Ocean's Foundation, particularly working on the White SeaBass Grow-Out Pens. The time she dedicated to the non-profit organization gave her lots of insight to the problems facing our world and turned me onto Environmental Studies. Currently she is concentrating in NRMC, yet finds every program to be equally important to solving the problems of our future. Outside of her academic work, Karen has been battling social justice by volunteering her time at Mujeres Unidas y Activas and CAMINOS, as well as working with preschoolers at Mission Annex. As she pursues her BA, she will continue to take a holistic approach on the environmental problems she is confronted with.

2007-08: Rick Sakow
Rick has been involved in the environmental and social activist arena since high-school, when he began working with the nation's most widely heard pirate radio station, Free Radio San Diego. At 16 he worked for the County of San Diego’s, Department of Environmental Health, Watershed Protection Program protecting water quality. Thanks to the ENVS Internship Program at SF State, he is currently working for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in the Clean Water Act Compliance Office where he is an inspector and compliance officer. he is currently applying for the masters program in Environmental Management at USF.

2006-07: Casey Batchelder
After graduating, Casey wants to teach people ways to conserve and live a sustainable life. Casey is cur-rently studying abroad in New Zealand.

Michaud Award Winners

2008-09: Marissa Speer
Marissa will never stop learning. Recently she and a friend shared some seeds from a calendula flower in her backyard. She was amazed as to the amount of seeds she collected just from one flower. This proves that life is abundant and that by working with nature everyone in the world could have their needs met. The earth is bursting with life, even our concrete sidewalks can't keep it out! Marissa recently completed the Earth Activist Training, a permaculture design course that also focuses on earth based spirituality. Permaculture can also be called Regenerative Design for human systems that build beneficial relationships with nature. She works to help spread the wealth of nature working within herself, within the human community, and working with the earth.

2007-08: Adrienne Eliza Aquino
Adrienne designed a poster for SFSU Focus the Nation and designed the T-shirts for the national Focus the Nation campaign. Adrienne describes her background and goals: I was born and raised in the Bay Area, and aspire to act locally. Ideally, I would like to apply my skills as a graphic designer to environmental communication. I have a strong interest in environmental justice and hope to become more involved with the movement. I see a strong correlation between effective communication and positive action and would like to use this knowledge to bring attention to environmental problems.