October 12, 2024
Undergraduates, like eggs, can be incubated with the right amount of care, attention, and humidity.
Well, maybe not humidity. But a beachside campus certainly doesn’t hurt.
Students in the Environmental Leadership Incubator (ELI), a nine-month program at UC Santa Barbara, are taking initiative and creating change, hatching into young leaders in their field.
Some nurture their surroundings, such as alum Emily Hernandez, who installed a garden on campus. Others are figuring out how to tackle existential problems, like new student Kaan Johnson, who is studying the psychological effects of climate change.
“This program pushed me forward to realize this is what I wanted to do with my life,” Hernandez said.
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