Maya Yanez
Maya graduated in 2019 with a degree in Astronomy and a minor in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. She conducted various research projects at both CU and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). She enjoys baking, video games, and crafting, and loves when science and art combine and the fact that we are answering life- and world-changing questions by approaching things from multiple disciplines. Maya is pursuing a PhD in Earth Sciences at the University of Southern California and is a member of the Amend Lab.
Maya's graduate mentor was Evan Anders. Her faculty mentor was David Brain.