Mandy Tran is a senior at The University of Texas at Austin majoring in environmental science with a certificate in public policy. After organizing mutual aid alongside fellow Houstonians in the aftermath of Winter Storm Uri, Tran decided to become an urban ecologist whose research can inform policies related to climate change mitigation within cities. On campus, they proposed school-level greenhouse gas emissions reduction strategies as a data analyst of the Climate Leaders Program, and off campus they conducted their senior thesis on plant ecology at the Brackenridge Field Laboratory. Tran loves fostering communities of passionate environmentalists through their leadership roles in the Texas Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior Club and the Environmental Justice Collective.