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Dr. Maya E. Carrasquillo

Founding Director & Principal Investigator

Civil and Environmental Engineering, UC Berkeley

Born & raised in Albany, NY, Maya E. Carrasquillo (she/her/hers) is now an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and is the Principal Investigator of the Liberatory Infrastructures Lab (LiL) at the University of California, Berkeley. The mission of LiL is to develop systems of critical infrastructure that supports liberation and restorative justice for all. She holds a B.S. in Environmental Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering from the University of South Florida. Her research has primarily studied the intersections of stormwater management, environmental justice, and complex hydrosocial systems, particularly focusing on historically underserved communities to develop a conceptual framework for equitable decision-making. Her work employs mixed methods approaches including GIS, and qualitative methods which emphasize community engagement, ethnography, and co-creation of design solutions for critical infrastructure. Dr. Carrasquillo is a Huelskamp Faculty Fellow which recognizes a promising new assistant professor in UC Berkeley’s College of Engineering for their innovative research. She is also the faculty director of UC Berkeley’s new initiative for Community Engaged Education in Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE^2). Dr. Carrasquillo is a certified Envision Sustainability Professional (ENV SP).

Kristida Chhour

PhD Candidate

Environmental Engineering

Kristida (she/her) is a fifth-year Ph.D. student studying environmental engineering. She is interested in the role of urban agriculture in food sovereignty, stormwater management, and climate resilience. Her current research focuses on how urban agriculture functions as green stormwater infrastructure. Many urban agriculture sites are operated by community organizations, which may not have the resources to formally measure and therefore gain recognition for the environmental and stormwater management impacts of their work at urban agriculture sites. This research project seeks to fill this gap by examining how urban agriculture functions as community-built green stormwater infrastructure, and in doing so, highlight community contributions to the urban ecosystem.

In her free time, Kristida enjoys growing, preparing, looking at, reading about, and, of course, eating food in the company of her two cats. Kristida is also involved with the Food Institute Graduate Council at Berkeley and supports undergraduate research projects at the UC Gill Tract Community Farm.

Brianna Clark

PhD Student

Education

Alberto Cortes

M.S. Student

Environmental Engineering

Adriana Gonzales

PhD Candidate

Geography, UC Berkeley

Adriana Gonzales is interested in investigating and mapping the pasts, presents, and futures of development and resilience across the Caribbean through the lenses of disaster, infrastructure, and agroecology. Adriana currently focuses on the political ecologies of disaster in Dominica and Puerto Rico from the late, post-Emancipation 19th century to the post-Hurricane Maria present. Adriana is a co-founder of the Caribbean Coalition at Berkeley.

Before her time at Berkeley, Adriana was an international research associate working to evaluate and improve the efficacy of international energy and maternal health projects in West Africa, the Caribbean, and South Asia. She was also a practicing full spectrum doula, childbirth educator, and lactation counselor.

Michael Grant Henderson

PhD Student

Energy, Civil Infrastructure, and Climate

Michael Henderson is a second-year Ph.D. student from Atlanta, GA. He is co-advised by Dr. Carrasquillo of the LILab and Dr. Moura of eCAL. He worked in the intersection of energy and equity. Michael serves as a CEE^2 Ambassador for the CEE Department at Cal. Outside of campus, Michael is a member at Berkeley Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Church. When he's not working, you can find Michael baking, grilling, or doing some form of cooking! He loves tennis, golf, and going to the gym! Michael is an avid music listener, with his top 3 artists for the last 5 years being Sam Cooke, Donny Hathaway, and Daniel Caesar (in that order)!

Fouzia Hossain Oyshi

PhD Candidate

Environmental Engineering

Fouzia is a fourth-year PhD student focusing in environmental engineering. Her research interest lies in the intersection of stormwater management and environmental justice. She is currently exploring where environmental justice officially stands in current stormwater practices. She is working towards developing a framework for decision makers to execute environmental justice in stormwater management practice. Fouzia holds masters in civil engineering from the University of Texas at Arlington. She is from B-Baria, Bangladesh and loves to stay on the beach on a cloudy day.

J'Anna-Mare Lue

PhD Candidate

Environmental Engineering

J'Anna-Mare (she/her) is an interdisciplinary scholar and a PhD candidate in Civil and Environmental Engineering. Her work focuses on the reparative capacity of engineering to address questions of climate justice in the Caribbean. She studies how colonial legacies have shaped built, natural, and social infrastructures in Jamaica, affecting communities' ability to adapt to climate change. Her dissertation research focuses on flood exposure risk in Jamaica. She argues that increased vulnerability to climate risk is an engineered phenomenon. J’Anna explores these issues through mapmaking, community engagement, ethnographic methods, and landscape and aerial photography. She documents historic landmarks, environmental changes, and local flora and fauna with photographs and video, visually connecting readers to the ecologies and geographies she studies.

She has previously conducted research on water, sanitation, and hygiene as well as research equity. J'Anna has worked on green stormwater infrastructure and water infrastructure monitoring and planning. She has a MS in Environmental Engineering from Drexel University. In her free time, J'Anna enjoys reading, cooking, live music, dancing, and tending to plants.

Jasmine McAdams

PhD Candidate

Energy & Resources Group

Jasmine’s research focuses on the infrastructures of and for imagination – the material, digital, and civic systems that shape how social and environmental futures are envisioned and made possible. Through analysis of the built environment, with a particular focus on data centers, energy systems, and carceral infrastructure, she examines how large-scale systems enable and constrain the capacity to imagine and enact alternative futures, and how power and belonging are unevenly distributed across them.

Her dissertation brings this critical perspective into conversation with creative, community-based civic practices, exploring how civic infrastructures and participatory processes shape who gets to imagine the future and on what terms.

Jasmine is also a co-creator and research lead of The Future of Us, a civic imagination initiative that brings people together through storytelling, design, and participatory world-building. By surfacing community visions of the future, Future of Us reimagines civic culture, making civic life more creative, joyful, and accessible.

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