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• January 22, 2015

Five Cal State East Bay students have been selected to attend the eighth annual Clinton Global Initiative University (CGI U) meeting, at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Fla., March 6-8.

The CSUEB students will join more than 1,100 university students from across the nation – hosted by former President Clinton – who are invited to participate based on their project ideas (“Commitments to Action”) addressing issues in five focus areas: education, environment and climate change, peace and human rights, poverty, and public health.

The CGI U — an initiative of the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation — brings college and university students together to turn ideas into action on local and global challenges. Student participants have the opportunity to attend plenary sessions, working sessions, and other special events covering the five focus areas. The event allows them to network with their peers, build skills, and identify potential partnerships. University representatives, topic experts, and celebrities will join students at CGI U to help them gain the skills and knowledge they need to take action on their commitments. On the final day of the meeting, attendees will take part in a “Day of Action” in the local community.

The Cal State East Bay students invited to the 2015 Clinton Global Initiative University meeting include:

• Fahimeh Hooshmand: Originally from Iran, Hooshmand is a graduate student majoring in geography. Her Commitment to Action is in the environment and climate change focus area, and calls for revising the waste-management procedures at Cal State East Bay by promoting the concept of “reducing, reusing and recycling.” Her idea is to increase the number of waste bins on campus, specifically those intended for recycling and composting, in addition to other measures.
• Ryan Tayahua: A sophomore political science major from Los Angeles, Tayahua submitted a proposal called “Pioneer Water Pledge,” an innovative and creative art piece that would bring more attention to the idea of water conservation. In Tayahua’s plan, which also falls under the environment and climate change focus area, everyone who pledges to conserve water would be included in a mosaic photo collage to be displayed on campus (serving as a promotional tool to educate and spread awareness of California’s drought).
• Brittney Wallace: From Sacramento, Wallace is a junior majoring in English. Her Commitment to Action is in the renewable energy category — spreading energy efficiency values through small actions. Her proposal is to increase CSUEB faculty, students and staff members’ awareness of energy efficiency in the residence halls through a “de-lamping” project in the buildings’ corridors. “This small action creates a greater dialogue on conserving energy and cutting costs,” she said. Wallace also plans to create a how-to guide modeling the pilot program to show how energy can be saved through small, measurable actions.
• Megan McAndrews and Ainsley Shallcross: McAndrews is a junior majoring in both economics and statistics, and Shallcross is a third-year recreational therapy major. The pair were part of a three-person team* that submitted a food sustainability project in the education focus area. The project started at Cal State East Bay in Fall 2014 and is aimed at addressing the economical, social, and ecological sustainability of the on-campus food system. Goals of the project would be to improve the university’s food system by becoming a fair-trade campus, formalizing a campus-to-community prepared food donation program, and assessing food purchasing decisions using . The overall goal is to develop and implement a sustainability focused food policy at the university.

Cal State East Bay is part of the CGI University Network, a consortium of colleges and universities that support, mentor, and provide seed funding to leading student innovators and entrepreneurs on their respective campuses.

“It is an exciting time for sustainability at CSUEB,” said Jillian Buckholz, director of sustainability at the university and CGI U campus mentor. “The commitment by our administration to become part of the CGI University Network is just one example of how our campus is moving toward sustainability.

“The support from the administration to register CSUEB as part of the CGI University Network is a great opportunity for our students to develop creative ideas to tackle pressing global issues and network with other student leaders,” Buckholz continued. “I look forward to the future development of this opportunity at CSUEB.”

About the Clinton Global Initiative and Clinton Global Initiative University

Building on the model of the Clinton Global Initiative, which brings together world leaders to take action on global challenges, former President Clinton launched the CGI U in 2007 to engage the next generation of leaders on college campuses around the world. Since 2008, students have made more than 4,800 Commitments to Action, and nearly $2 million in funding has been awarded to these commitment-makers through CGI U. For more information on CGI U, visit: .

*A third undergraduate student, Mercedes Ruiz, helped write the Food Sustainability Project, but will not attend the conference. Ruiz is a first-generation college student from Pomona, Calif., who contributed to the project.