Second-year student Zora Williams is using her voice to bring more mental health and nutrition programming to San Diego Mesa College. Williams was elected president of the college’s Associated Students (AS) for the 2024-2025 academic year and serves as the college’s student representative on the San Diego Community College District Board of Trustees.
Sometimes, you hear a story that makes you want to know more. Kevin Gonzalez has such a story. The last time this story was updated, San Diego Mesa College student Kevin Gonzalez was a 15 year-old heading off to Massachusetts to complete his high school education. In the ensuing years, he has travelled to the other side of the world, built houses, but remained in close contact with his Mesa College professors and connections he made while on campus.
The San Diego Community College District has appointed four new student trustees for the upcoming academic year. Dalia Ramirez (San Diego City College), Zora Williams (San Diego Mesa College), Hailey Hua (San Diego Miramar College), and Haydee Zuniga (San Diego College of Continuing Education), will be sworn in during the June 20 SDCCD Board of Trustees meeting.
October 26, 2017
On Friday, Oct. 13 San Diego Mesa College held its third annual Sustainability Summit event. Various organizations and speakers were present, including representatives from the Environmental Health Coalition, an environmental justice non-profit, and Closing the Loop SD, a recycling and composting company. Co-Coordinator of SEEDS Scholar Program and Assistant Professor of Geography, Waverly Ray, summarized the event, “The third annual Sustainability Summit exposed students to educational pathways and careers related to sustainability, hunger, and food security.”
There were interactive “Community Connections” activities that allowed attending students to ask exhibitors questions, inquire about volunteer and internship opportunities, and take part in hands on research. Collectively, 132 high school students from San Diego MET High School, Madison High School, Mission Bay High School, and Kearny High School attended the event.
The Summit was also an opportunity for SEEDS students to present their agriculture and environmental science research. Student lunch speakers included Mesa College SEEDS Scholars Cassie Casares and Claudia Nieto, and former Mesa College student and SEEDS Fellow Jessica Vallejo. Casares presented research from her summer internship with the U.S. Forest Service through CSU-San Bernadino, Nieto presented her research from the UCSD STARS Program, and Vallejo presented on her study abroad experience in Spain.
Exhibitors included: Sierra Club, SanDiego350 – Climate Change Action, San Diego Food Bank, Feeding San Diego, USDA AgDiscovery Program, Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, Resource Conservation District of Greater San Diego County, Solid Waste Planning and Recycling (County of San Diego), Proposed Sustainability Degree at Mesa College, Pure Water San Diego, Mission Trails Regional Park, TerraMesa, and San Diego Audubon.
For more information on the SEEDS Scholar Program and future educational events about sustainability and agriculture, please visit online at SEEDS Scholar Program or contact Waverly Ray at wray@sdccd.edu.
Tags: Student Research, Urban Agriculture, SEEDS Scholar Program, SEEDS, Sustainability Summit
Jennifer Nichols Kearns
Director of Communications
jnkearns@sdccd.edu
(619) 388-2759
San Diego, CA- On February. 5, 2024, the U.S. Department of Agriculture Deputy Secretary Xochitl Torres Small announced San Diego Mesa College as included in the selection of 19 minority-serving educational institutions to take part in the 2024 USDA Agricultural Export Market Challenge. San Diego Mesa College is one of only three community colleges chosen to participate.
With the passing of each academic year, Mesa College continues to be honored by the academic and professional achievements of our past and present Olympians. Those include the merits and accolades of our developing scientists in the Bridges to the Baccalaureate Program, which supports scholars from historically underrepresented backgrounds as they plan to transfer and earn a bachelor’s degree in biomedical or behavioral science.
On Friday, Oct. 13 San Diego Mesa College held its third annual Sustainability Summit event. Various organizations and speakers were present, including representatives from the Environmental Health Coalition, an environmental justice non-profit, and Closing the Loop SD, a recycling and composting company. Co-Coordinator of SEEDS Scholar Program and Assistant Professor of Geography, Waverly Ray, summarized the event, “The third annual Sustainability Summit exposed students to educational pathways and careers related to sustainability, hunger, and food security.”
