Congratulations to Energy and Resources Group master’s student Sarah Sarfaty Epstein on being named a 2025 awardee of the Switzer Environmental Fellowship.
Established by the Robert and Patricia Switzer Foundation, the fellowship identifies and nurtures the next generation of leaders who are dedicated to creating positive environmental change across the public and private sectors. Graduate students at universities in California and New England selected for the competitive fellowship receive $17,000 to support their studies, research, and career development. In addition to selecting awardees for their leadership potential, Fellowship recipients demonstrate a commitment to advancing social equity as a core part of their environmental work.
Sarfaty Epstein is a second-year master’s student studying landscape-scale climate resilience decision-making in California’s agriculture sector, particularly at the agriculture-energy-water nexus. Her current research uses geospatial analysis to create decision support tools at the groundwater basin level, and she previously worked as a policy assistant on an agrovoltaics research team at the Berkeley Food Institute. She is joined by
Environmental Science, Policy, and Management PhD candidate Cynthia Wilson was also named a Switzer Fellow this year. Visit the Switzer Foundation website to read more about the 2025 Fellows.
