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SEED Fellowships
Undergraduate Fellowship Program
Do you enjoy discussing complex issues with folks from a variety of disciplines and backgrounds to try to create a more just and regenerative world? The SEED Undergraduate Fellowship Program is a year-long sustainability leadership program that challenges students to explore diverse perspectives, create meaningful relationships, develop a critical consciousness and serve as positive agents of sustainability.
As a SEED Undergraduate Fellow, you will:
Read and learn about sustainability and leadership
Design, build and launch a sustainability impact project
Build relationships with sustainability resesarchers, practitioners and leaders
SEED Undergraduate Fellows will leave the program not only with the title "Regis SEED Fellow" on their resume, but more importantly with an impact project, practical leadership tools, extensive sustainability knowledge and connections with each other and other sustainability practitioners who may be potential employers.
Becoming a SEED Undergraduate Fellow
Undergraduate Fellows are required to take one 3-credit class in the fall and one 3-credit class in the spring (BA4430/BA4431). This Fellowship is a commitment to a community of learners and practitioners who want to change the world for the better – it will require time, dedication and enthusiasm.
The Undergraduate Fellowship is recommended for students considering careers or further education in diverse fields including business, health care, education, journalism, sciences, government, nonprofit work and technology – we not only welcome all perspectives, but believe they are the key to creative and unique solutions.
The Undergraduate Fellowship Program is available to students with sophomore standing or above. Interested students must submit an application to the program.
Abby Hoople
Major: Marketing
Hometown: Broomfield, CO
Graduation Year: 2025
Sustainability Focus/Interests: As someone who is an avid skier, hiker, and camper I want to learn more about how we ourselves can protect this earth. This fellowship is my way to learn more by broadening not only my knowledge but those of others too. I want to be able to say that I did something for this world, and that I was able to change something. The most important thing to me is protecting this earth that we are on, and preserving its beauty.
Alayna Bashaw
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Alyssa Granno
Major: Communication
Hometown: Sacramento, CA
Graduation Year: 2025
Sustainability Focus/Interests: Through the SEED fellowship program I believe I will have the opportunity to leave more of a positive impact on keeping the earth in its most natural, organic, beautiful state for as long as possible. I am largely interested in sustainable clothing and buying clothes made to last. I also am passionate about keeping our oceans clean and not using them as a landfill for the populations.
Danny Gonzales-Hyde
Major: Global Politics and Communications
Hometown: Denver, CO
Graduation Year: 2025
Sustainability Focus/Interests: Last semester I had the opportunity to study abroad in Central America where I took classes that focused on the effects of climate change. These classes highlighted indigenous ways of coexistence with the environment and how these practices can be carried into the 21st century. This compliments my own background, as a local Coloradan, where I have seen in my lifetime the way that Colorado winters have been pushed back while our summers continue to set new record highs in temperature. This has affected me personally, as I have always loved spending time in Colorado's beautiful outdoors. As a SEED fellow, I will be able to further develop my thoughts on environmentalism and the economy, as I one day hope that my generation can lead the way in creating a greener future.
Eleanor Hebert
Major: Climate Justice
Hometown: Dallas, TX
Graduation Year: 2026
Sustainability Focus/Interests: I am passionate about creating a more just, humane, and sustainable world. Through my integrative major in Climate Justice & Sustainability, I seek to better understand the intersectionality of our rapidly changing climate and social justice. I am committed to community building and organizing and pursuing community-based solutions utilizing politics, economics, and an ethical environmental framework. The SEED Fellowship is an opportunity to continue to grow a nuanced understanding of interdisciplinary strategies toward making tangible progress in sustainability and to cultivate my leadership skills in community with other committed changemakers.
Erika Yevara
Major: Neuroscience (Minor in Women and Gender Studies)
Hometown: Golden, CO
Graduation Year: 2025
Sustainability Focus/Interests: Driven by the belief that we are stewards of the Earth, sustainability is not only our responsibility but our calling. I want to focus on advocating for sustainable fashion and implementing changes for a more environmentally conscious world. I believe that we are all interconnected with nature and that the power of individual actions greatly impacts the collective. I would love to learn how to live sustainably in all aspects of life, from conscious consumption choices to eco-friendly practices.
Gisselle Valenzuela-Zuniga
Major: Neuroscience ( Minor in Chemistry and Spanish )
Hometown: Lakewood, CO
Graduation Year: 2024
Sustainability Focus/Interests: I am interested in learning about sustainability and the environment, I joined the Seed Fellowship to contribute to global efforts in addressing climate change. The fellowship provides me with a platform to collaborate with like-minded individuals, expand my skills, and advocate for policies prioritizing sustainability. My goal is to actively engage in initiatives that promote sustainable practices, conservation, and community empowerment, working towards a more resilient and equitable world.
Grace Admire
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Sustainability Focus/Interests: To me, sustainability is not just a far-out concept, or something we do here and there, but something we must work to incorporate into every part of our every day lives and into our communities. It is not just how we work to be more friendly to the environment. It is how we work to make our environment suitable long term for all people, plants, and creatures, to cultivate a healthy relationship within all parts of the ecosystem, while adapting to the needs and growing interests of the modern, globalized world. Through the SEED Fellowship, I’m hoping to help bridge the gap in our Denver community between where we are and where we need to be—through love for our world, our future, and each other.
Neil McCallum
Major: History
Hometown: Littleton, CO
Graduation Year: 2025
Sustainability Focus/Interests: As an educator, it is my most deep seeded interest to inform the next generations about the importance of sustainability and why we are in our current environmental crisis today. Through history, the importance of sustainability and the health of our planet can be brought to the forefront in an interdisciplinary approach. Economics, science and policy -to name a few- all play a part in environmental change, and understanding the changes in those fields will allow us to better assess what environmental crises are affecting us today.
Noah Smardo
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Skyler Strasia
Major: Biology
Hometown: Pueblo, CO
Graduation Year: 2024
Sustainability Focus/Interests: I am interested in spreading education and communication around both our campus and community about the crises occurring around us in the world today. I am one who doesn’t have much knowledge regarding these crises yet, and personally would like to build and share my knowledge to others in order to take action to help end climate change and other crises that have led to it.
Stella Straubing
Major: Psychology
Hometown: Fort Collins, CO
Graduation Year: 2025
Sustainability Focus/Interests: I strongly believe that each individual leaves their mark on this earth one way or another. Through the SEED Fellowship, I am able to learn how to leave a more positive footprint myself as well as learn to lead communities through collective effort towards keeping the beauty of this earth alive.
SEED Faculty Fellows
Asbjorn Egir
Affiliate Faculty - Anderson College of Business and Computing
Kellen Sorauf
Assistant Professor of Data and Information Sciences
Tom Yagos
Senior Lecturer of Graduate Business
The cohort of SEED Anderson College Faculty Fellows provides support to faculty members who wish to learn more about the topic of sustainability within their fields.
SEED Faculty Fellows
- Explore the question of how business and technology can be a force for good in the world
- Deepen their connection with Anderson College peers by exploring leading-edge topics together that are at the heart of the future of business and technology
- Re-invigorate their curriculum, research and practice
- Collaborate on ways to innovate in their classrooms
- Connect their students to SEED opportunities and events