Alumni
These students were ESDRI fellows when they graduated from Kent State University. Follow along to see what they are up to now!
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Meet Our Alumni

Rae Baba
Environmental Studies; minor in Environment, Peace, and Justice (BA '25)
Research interests: environmental justice, Indigenous knowledge, and African American experience

Kathryn Burns
Environmental Studies; minor in Environment, Peace, and Justice (BA '24)
Research interests: food waste and recovery, environmental education, and environmental justice

Emily Campbell
Laboratory Technician I at Alliance Technical Group
Organismal Biology (BS '24)
Research interests: wetland restoration, soil and water chemistry, and nutrient cycling

Lukas Capatosto
Environmental and Conservation Biology (BS '24)
Research interests: genomics and evolutionary biology

Alicia Costello
M.S. student, Ecology, Pennsylvania State University
Horticulture (BS '24)
Research interests: sustainable horticulture, botany, plant pathology, forestry, agroforestry, nutrient cycling, and climate change

Olivia Eader
M.S. student, Geography, Kent State University
Environmental Studies & English (BA '24)
Research interests: environmental justice and outdoor/environmental education

Hana Esber
M.S. student, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (Kinsman-Costello Lab), Kent State University
Environmental Studies; minors in Geography, Parks Management, and Biology for Environmental Management and Conservation (BA '25)
Research interests: wetland restoration and geospatial analysis

Renae Gizzo
Environmental Scientist, CTL Engineering
Environmental and Conservation Biology; minor in GIS (BS '23)
Research interests: Remote sensing, UAVs, and ecological modeling

Samuel Large
Environmental Scientist, EnviroScience, Inc.
Environmental and Conservation Biology; minor in Climate Change (BS '24)
Research interests: landscape ecology, nutrient cycling, ecotoxicity, and landscape disturbance

Abigail Leonard
Technician, Pine Environmental
Environmental Studies (BA 24')
Research interests: ornithology, migratory behaviors, environmental justice, wildlife, and botany

Kaylin Mentz
Lab Technician, Davey Tree Plant Diagnostic Laboratory
Environmental Studies; minors in Economics, Park Management, Biology for Environmental Management and Conservation (BA '25)
Research interests: freshwater conservation and resource management, and plant and soil ecology

Max Miller
Environmental Studies; minor in Biology for Environmental Management (BA '23)
Research interests: botany, soil, sustainability, agriculture, agricultural entomology, invasive species/biodiversity, ecology, and pollution

Mitchel Pozwick
M.A. student, Criminology and Criminal Justice, Kent State University
Investigative intern
Environmental Studies; minor in Criminology and Justice Studies (BA '23)
Research interests: wetland classification

Justin Thompson
M.S. student, Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan
Environmental Studies and Political Science; minors in Geology, Geography, and Urban Studies (BA '22)
Research interests: US-Canada transboundary environmental policy, hydraulic fracturing and injection wells and environmental justice, sustainability, and public policy

Cody Ulbricht
Environmental Studies; minor in Geography (BA '23)
Research interests: wildlife conservation and studying invasive species

Carla Wagner
Art Intern, Feverdream
Studio Art with a concentration in Painting; minor in Drawing (BFA '25)
Research interests: the exploration of futurity in the world around us, using the environment to make 3 dimensional and mixed media pieces to portray the issues happening in our environment as a whole

Grace Watson
M.S. student, Aquatic Ecology, Ohio State University
Environmental and Conservation Biology; minor in Environmental Geology (BS' 24)
Research interests: wetland restoration and monitoring, aquatic ecology, nutrient cycling, and invertebrates