Alana is a first-year Master’s stu­dent in the Ener­gy and Resources Group. Pri­or to arriv­ing at ERG, she received her under­grad­u­ate degree from Tufts Uni­ver­si­ty (2012) in Envi­ron­men­tal Stud­ies and Inter­na­tion­al Rela­tions. She served as an Ameri­Corps Nation­al Teach­ing Fel­low for two years at the Dev­er-McCor­ma­ck School in Dorch­ester, MA, teach­ing 8^th grade aca­d­e­m­ic enrich­ment class­es as well as a high school prepa­ra­tion cur­ricu­lum that she devel­oped for pub­lic schools across the Cit­i­zen Schools net­work. At ERG, her research inter­ests focus on trans­lat­ing ener­gy and resource issues into sec­ondary-school-lev­el sci­ence lessons in order to pro­mote eco­log­i­cal intel­li­gence and cli­mate lit­er­a­cy goals. In addi­tion to work­ing on envi­ron­men­tal edu­ca­tion efforts local­ly, Alana is part of an inter­dis­ci­pli­nary team of grad­u­ate stu­dents work­ing to design and build a net-zero-ener­gy tiny house for the Sacra­men­to Munic­i­pal Util­i­ty Dis­trict (SMUD) Tiny House Com­pe­ti­tion. Part of the tiny house project involves lead­ing a “DeCal” course for UC Berke­ley under­grad­u­ates, teach­ing stu­dents how to install solar pan­els and put into prac­tice green build­ing tech­niques in order to pro­mote fur­ther cam­pus-wide car­bon neu­tral hous­ing projects. The tiny house is intend­ed to pro­duce a por­tion of its own food and recycle/​treat grey­wa­ter onsite in addi­tion to meet­ing its own ener­gy needs.  The award win­ning Tiny House web­site is: THIMBY.