The Blum Center’s Innovations at the Nexus of Food, Energy, and Water Systems (InFEWS) program brings together an interdisciplinary community of UC Berkeley graduate and undergraduate fellows dedicated to solving critical global challenges. Our fellows work across engineering, social sciences, and environmental design to co-develop sustainable, community-driven solutions that address the world’s most pressing FEWS issues.
Through research, fieldwork, and collaboration with partner organizations, InFEWS Fellows explore innovative approaches to climate resilience, resource equity, and sustainable development, turning knowledge into action for a more just and sustainable future.
Luis Ayana
CEE
Resource Recovery from Wastewater
Maria Balcazar Tellez
Public Policy
Food and Agricultural Policy
Paige Balcom
Mechanical Engineering
Creating Products from Plastic Waste in Ugana
Siva Bandaru
CEE
Water and Wastewater Treatment
Jacob Barton
Education
Environmental Education and Equity in Schools
Areidy Beltran
Environmental Science
Water, Energy, and Food Security
Drew Cameron
Public Policy
Drinking water policy and behavior change
Margaret Chapman
EECS
Risk-Sensitive Control of Safety-Critical Systems
Victoria Cheng
CEE
Interaction of FEW Systems
Savannah Cox
CED
Zach Dinh
CED
Micah Elias
ERG
Ecosystem Services of Agricultural Land
Isa Ferall
ERG
Role of Renewable Energy
Joel Ferguson
CEE
Resource Recovery from Wastewater
Casey Finnerty
ERG
Taryn Fransen
ERG | GHG
Emissions and FEWS Systems
Soliver Fusi
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Project Urine to Fertilizer
Sarah Glade
CEE
Drinking Water Treatment Technology Implementation
Pierce Gordon
ERG
Lukas Hackl
CEE
Mechanistic Understanding of Electrode-Based Desalination
Anaya Hall
ERG
Crop-Livestock Interactions in Climate Models
Stephen Harrell
Ag & Resource Econ/Business
Development Economics
Sophie Hearn
MDP
Sewage and Wastewater Treatment
Dana Hernandez
CEE
Development of electrochemical arsenic removal technology for contaminated groundwater in Central California
Samantha Hing
CEE
Clean Cookstoves Adoption in Developing Countries
Adrian Hinkle
CEE
Nutrient recovery from source-separated urine
Christopher Hyun
Energy and Resources
Water and Sanitation Planning
Woojin Jung
Social Welfare
Evaluation of Technology-Based Development Interventions
Banish Kalyan
CEE
Mimi Kaplan
GSPP
Seigi Karasaki
ERG
Drinking Water Access
Brian Kastle
Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management
Conservation of Endangered Salmon Species
Kathleen Kirsch
CEE & Public Policy
Evidence-based solutions for Water and Sanitation
Emily Kramer
CEE
Inland Reverse Osmosis
Julia Kramer
Mechanical Engineering
Cervical Cancer Screening Access
Paras Kumar
Education
Optimal Methods to Communicate Science to the Broader Public
Gabriel Lobo
ESPM
Biosolids Treatment for Land Applications
Beki McElvain
DCRP
Disaster Planning, Earthquake Resilience in Latin America
Yakira Mirabito
Mechanical Engineering
George Moore
Mechanical Engineering
Human Centered Design with Underserved Communities
Marielle Olentine
CNR
Sustainable Food Systems, Regenerative Agriculture
Robert On
Information School
ICT and Data Science in Development
Evan Patrick
ESPM
Lorenzo Rosa
ESPM
Water-Energy-Food Nexus
Esther Shears
ERG
Alana Siegner
ERG
Agriculture and Climate Change Education
Sofia Steffens
Chemistry
Jesse Strecker
ERG
Jaimie Swartz
EECS
Julia Szinai
ERG & Public Policy
Distributed Energy Resources, Energy Water Nexus
Kerzhner Tamara
CED
Informal transportation, paratransit
Elif Tasar
ERG
Sonia Travaglini
Mechanical Engineering
Sustainable FEW and Infrastructure Systems
Leela Veluatham
Education
Psychological and Educational Interventions to Increase Global Warming Acceptance
Karin Vosgueritchian
Public Policy
Policy in FEW Systems
Tzipora Wagner
ERG
Clean Technology for Waste Water Treatment
Liya Weldegebriel
CEE
Shelby Witherby
CEE
Haley Wohlever
Mechanical Engineering
Design for Morphing applied to Desalination
