Forum for Undergraduate Environmental Leadership (FUEL)

The Woods Institute FUEL program seeks to bring Stanford students beyond their classroom education and provide a real-world primer on critical issues of environmental concern by opening up conversations with policymakers and professionals working at the forefront of solutions. The program provides professional connections and lay-of-the-land insight through the lens of a specific sustainability issue. In recent years, the program has focused on pollution policy in California and the challenges for environmental health and justice, with meetings on campus and in Sacramento with invited speakers, advocates, and policymakers.

The FUEL program is currently being scoped for the coming year. Please check back for more information.

APPLICATIONS ARE CLOSED.

The program is open to Stanford undergraduates who are sophomores, juniors and seniors, and to co-terms who are still in undergraduate status (bachelor's degree not conferred). The Woods Institute for the Environment offers the FUEL program at no cost to students.

Details:

The FUEL program for the coming year is still being determined. However, the 2018 program was instructive, in which student participants met with and gained the perspectives of:

at Stanford
• Christine Gardner, Board Member, Environmental Working Group; Advisory Council, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment
• Michael Wara, Senior Research Scholar, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment

in Oakland
• Paulina Torres, Staff Attorney – Pesticides Campaign, Center on Race, Poverty and the Environment
• Alvaro Casanova, CA Policy Manager, Center for Environmental Health
• Kaya Sugerman, Litigation Coordinator, Center for Environmental Health
• Sue Chiang, Pollution Prevention Director, Center for Environmental Health

in Sacramento
• Bill Allayaud, California Director of Governmental Affairs, Enviromental Working Group
• Josh Tooker, Chief Consultant, Committee on Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials, CA State Assembly
• Sam Delson, Deputy Director for External and Legislative Affairs, CA Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment
• Laura August, MPH, Research Scientist (CalEnviroScreen), CA Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment
• Shankar Prasad, MBBS, Staff Toxicologist (CalEnviroScreen), CA Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment
• Daryn Dodge, Ph.D., Staff Toxicologist (air toxics hot spots), CA Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment
• Julian Leichty, MPA, Special Assistant (Proposition 65), CA Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment
• Karl Palmer, Chief, Safer Consumer Products Branch, CA Dept. of Toxics Substances Control

in San Francisco (was optional for any participants who were interested)
• staff members from the Reducing Toxics and Healthy Ecosystems Program, and from other Programs, San Francisco Department of the Environment