Cristina Halstead is a native Californian. She has a B.A. Public Policy from Occidental College and an M.S. Environmental Education from Audubon Expedition Institute/Lesley University. Her areas of interest include green roofs, campus sustainability, biodiesel, and international development.She plans to do her thesis on green roofs, possibly studying their stormwater mitigation or energy savings benefits. She recently traveled to Nicaragua as part of a regenerative studies course to see renewable energy projects. She hopes to travel to other parts of Latin America, especially Mexico, to see other examples of how regenerative technologies can be applied.
Amelia Niluphar Herndon is a Landscape Architect who has been living and working in Riverside, CA for the last 6 1⁄2 years. She received her B.S. in Landscape Architecture from UC Davis in 2001. She is LEED NC accredited and a certified Permaculture Designer.Her passion for environmental design has been most apparent on municipal park projects dedicated to stormwater quality, water conservation landscaping, and trails master planning.
Now as a Regenerative Studies graduate student, her area of interest is biofiltration swales within the Santa Ana River watershed. Her specialization is non-point source pollution from stormwater run-off and finding regenerative ways to detain “first-flush” potentially contaminated waters, and settle out sediment and suspended solids before they reaches the rivers, lakes, and oceans.
She shares that “the Regenerative Studies Master’s Degree Program at Cal Poly Pomona has been an opportunity for me to realize a synthesis of my passions for healthy communities and landscape architecture.”
