Venezia Ramirez

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B.S. Environmental Science, 2020

Venezia Ramirez is a powerhouse for her community. In every space she is in, from UCLA, USC, and NASA, she continuously advocates for mindful research initiatives in solidarity with frontline communities that are working towards achieving environmental justice.

She earned her B.S in Environmental Science from UCLA and is currently pursuing the M.S. in Sustainable Engineering at USC with a focused technical emphasis in Energy and Power Systems. It gives her great pride to pursue her master’s degree at the institution where her parents initially met as cleaning/maintenance staff.

With roots from Durango, Chihuahua and Guanajuato, Mexico, she brings a passionate devotion that for the past 6 years has fueled her work in researching injustice in urban ecological systems that span from soil remediation, air quality, and now energy justice. She looks forward to completing her degree to increase her capacity to address pressing local and global sustainability challenges through a community driven, engineering systems lens.