Graduate Research Assistant
Iowa State University
Ames, Iowa, United States
Ámbar is a Forestry Ph.D. student at Iowa State University. She works with urban green spaces and their relationships with human well-being and environmental justice. She aims to help establish priority urban areas for restoration in the Midwest, identify environmental justice issues, and contribute significantly to understanding urban green space quality and its connections to human well-being.
Ambar is from San Juan, Puerto Rico, and completed her B.S. in Microbiology (2020) at the University of Puerto Rico, with a Minor in Women and Gender Studies and undergraduate research in restoration ecology and agroecology. She then obtained her Master’s in Public Health (2022) at the University of Puerto Rico Medical Sciences Campus, where she worked on epidemiological research during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Additionally, her lived experiences during the Hurricane Maria Humanitarian crisis and as a Public University student during the Puerto Rico debt crisis gave her in-depth perspectives on Social and Environmental injustices around her. These experiences have led her to explore public health, social justice, and nature and the paths connecting them through her research. She hopes to collaborate on more projects that could lead to policy, management, and grassroots movement breakthroughs, using qualitative and quantitative methods to create more equitable cities and urban nature.
Thursday, September 19, 2024
9:30 AM – 10:30 AM MST
Friday, September 20, 2024
10:00 AM – 10:30 AM MST
