Kate Zegans

Research Assistant at UC San Diego Design Lab
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Hanover, New Hampshire, United States, US

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Credentials

  • LEED Green Associate
    USGBC National Capital Region
    Dec, 2022
    - Nov, 2024

Experience

  • UC San Diego Design Lab
    • United States
    • Higher Education
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Research Assistant
      • Sep 2023 - Present

      Conducting research projects assessing affordable housing in San Diego with Professors Mai Nguyen and Bill Fulton. Conducting research projects assessing affordable housing in San Diego with Professors Mai Nguyen and Bill Fulton.

  • Filene Research Institute
    • United States
    • Financial Services
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Research Assistant
      • Mar 2023 - Present

      Research Assistant to Professor Mai Nguyen [The Design Lab, UCSD], developing a report on Affordable Housing Funds for the Filene Institute. Research Assistant to Professor Mai Nguyen [The Design Lab, UCSD], developing a report on Affordable Housing Funds for the Filene Institute.

  • UC San Diego Design Lab
    • United States
    • Higher Education
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Research Intern at the Bioregional Center for Sustainability Science, Planning, and Design
      • Oct 2022 - Mar 2023

      As an intern at the Bioregional Center, I worked on coordinating a GIS Tree Mapping project using crowdsourced data from undergraduate students. I also assisted on writing, research, and administrative tasks related to the Alianza project and Advancing Green Infrastructure for Learning and Equity (AGILE) as part of the UC Global Food Initiative. The Alianza project is an effort to create a tri-national climate action plan between the US, the Kumeyaay, and Mexico for the Calibaja Bioregion. The AGILE project conducts research on green infrastructure feasibility in San Diego, with a focus on enhancing produce access and educational outcomes. For more info on the Bioregional Center: https://bioregionalcenter.ucsd.edu/ Show less

  • UC San Diego
    • United States
    • Higher Education
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • GIS Researcher, Triton Research Experimental Learning Scholarship Program
      • Jun 2022 - Aug 2022

      TRELS is a merit-based summer research scholarship for independent undergraduate research projects. For my TRELS project, I designed and completed a GIS analysis of in-migration patterns to New Hampshire over a 15 year period and created a regression model to assess if there was an association between the level of climate change impact risk (per the National Risk Index) and the amount of out-migration to New Hampshire (per IRS Tax Filing Relocation data).

    • Volunteer Research Assistant, Climate Psychology and Action Lab
      • Nov 2021 - Jul 2022

      The Climate Psychology Action Lab at UCSD explores the psychological features of climate change to better understand what drives climate action, complacency, and denial. As a volunteer, I assisted on qualitative interviewing and survey project assessing legacy trade-union members' beliefs about climate change and conception of how electrification policies would impact them. This project reflects the CPAL's action-oriented approach to social science research.For more info on the Climate Psychology Action Lab: https://climate.ucsd.edu/ Show less

    • Climate Action Scholars Program
      • Jan 2022 - Jun 2022

      The Climate Justice/Action/Resilience Scholars is a bidirectional learning and research program at UC San Diego immersing students in environmental activism and research in San Diego. I was 1 of 25 students accepted to the inaugural class of the Climate Justice Action Scholars program. I engaged in hands-on, collaborative, community-based learning, and research pertaining to the climate crisis and San Diego communities and produced two final projects. The first was a report, called "Climate Induced Migration and the Rise of the Far Right" explored how climate change and particularly climate migrants are framed in far right political movements, both currently and historically. The second was a mapping project in which we created an assessment tool for seeing sustainability on a street-level. Using this tool we assessed and mapped assets in the South Park neighborhood of San Diego. Show less

  • Twin Pines Housing
    • United States
    • Real Estate
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Administrative Assistant, Intern, Relocation Coordinator
      • Aug 2018 - Sep 2021

      Twin Pines Housing Trust (TPHT) is a nonprofit organization which develops and manages affordable housing in New Hampshire and Vermont and provide ongoing support for residents to remain housed. During my time at Twin Pines I worked on the property management, supportive services, and administrative teams. For more info about Twin Pines: https://www.tphtrust.org/ Supportive Services and Property Management -Relocation coordinator: mediated between project managers, elderly residents, and local government to ease transition between old and new building and comply with federal relocation regulations -Coordinated vaccine clinics, food drops, yard sales and other community programs for residents -Started an after-school reading program for a TPHT property working with the local library -Organized a community gardening project and grant spending to fund the project -Budgeted grants for recreation and community health projects -Worked one-on-one with residents to assist with unemployment applications and job applications Administrative -Processed checks, assisted residents and applicants, coordinated maintenance schedules, directed calls and assisted staff -Assessed the potential for renewable energy credits at several properties by aggregating energy use data, assisted the fundraising team at Twin Pines revitalize their website, collected signatures for town appropriations, assist with making promotional materials for TPHT, maintained records. Show less

  • The Triton
    • United States
    • Newspaper Publishing
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Managing Editor
      • Mar 2019 - Mar 2021

      The Triton is UCSD's independent Student Newspaper. I began writing for the Triton my first year, worked as an assistant Arts and Culture editor and an Opinion editor before being elected as Managing Editor in my second year and re-elected the next year. As managing editor, I honed my editorial skills, particularly in news reporting and editing and learned how to effectively manage a team of students. Navigating the fast pace of the news cycle alongside the challenges of running a very lean independent paper as the COVID-19 pandemic hit developed my creativity as a manager. Scope of responsibilities: -Extensive writing, editing, copy-editing, and editorial research -Completing and guiding long term investigative and breaking news stories -Managed a 40 student team -Responsible for all content and appointing editors -Guide trajectory of coverage and timely processing of articles -Planning staff events and resolving inter-staff conflict -Was responsible for holding ethical standards, brand-consistency, and editorial standards -IT editorial tools: Wordpress, Trello, Slack and other programs to manage workflow and website Accomplishments as Managing Editor: -Handled pandemic transition, designed an effective remote work modality -During my tenure as Managing the Triton has published its most read content since its inception Show less

Education

  • UC San Diego
    Bachelor's degree, Sociology l Minors in Urban Studies and Planning, Climate Change Studies

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