University of Southern California

Graduate Student Ambassadors

Master of Health Administration (MHA)

Name Year E-mail Hometown Undergrad Concentration / Interests
Tiffany Ortega 2nd year tortega@usc.edu Redlands, CA Willamette University Health care access
Srestha Ghosh 1st year sresthag@usc.edu Knoxville, TN Univ. of Tennessee-Knoxville Management
Veeral Shah 1st year veeralhs@usc.edu San Jose, CA University of the Pacific Management

Master of Public Administration (MPA)

Name Year E-mail Hometown Undergrad Concentration / Interests
Christine Oh 2nd year christso@usc.edu La Crescenta, CA UC Santa Cruz Nonprofit management
Raabia Budhwani 2nd year raabia.budhwani@usc.edu Atlanta, GA Emory University Economic & international development
Brian O'Connor 2nd year boconnor@usc.edu Arcadia, CA Cal State Los Angeles Local government
Garrett Marquis 1st year gmarquis@usc.edu Orange County, CA USC Intergovernmental affairs
Grace Pun 1st year gpun@usc.edu San Francisco, CA UC Berkeley Nonprofit management
Jingjie "Ginger" Li 1st year jingjiel@usc.edu Shanghai, China International Studies Univ. Nonprofit management
Christa Salazar 1st year cmsalaza@usc.edu Cupertino, CA New York University Generalist
Xia "Rebecca" Zhao 1st year zhao7@usc.edu Zhejiang, China Harbin Institute of Technology Generalist
Tamaron Jang 1st year tjang@usc.edu Lafayette, CA UCLA Nonprofit management

Master of Public Policy (MPP)

Name Year E-mail Hometown Undergrad Concentration / Interests
Osvaldo Peña 2nd year opena@usc.edu El Monte, CA Georgetown University civil infrastructure
Zachary Harlow-Nash 2nd year harlowna@usc.edu Yarmouth, ME Tulane University Education policy
Nicole Rommero 1st year nrommero1@gmail.com Inglewood, CA University of San Francisco Business, Social & Urban Policy
Tyler Durchslag-Richardson 1st year tyler.mdr@gmail.com Redway, CA UC Santa Barbara Environmental policy
Courtney "CJ" Woods 1st year courtnjw@usc.edu Eudora, AR & Atlanta, GA Morehouse College Nonprofits
Jesse Melgares 1st year jesse.melgares@gmail.com East Hollywood, CA UCLA, LMU (masters) Generalist
Yu "Claire" Xiang 1st year yuxiang@usc.edu Shenzhen, China Guangdong Univ. of Foreign Studies Environmental policy
La Mikia Castillo 1st year lamikia.castillo@usc.edu Inglewood, CA UC San Diego Generalist

Master of Planning (MPL)

Julie Mech 1st yr jmech@usc.edu Chicago, IL Savannah College of Art & Design Sustainable Land Use
Name Year E-mail Hometown Undergrad Concentration / Interests
Tushar Dutta 2nd year tdutta@usc.edu Milpitas, CA UCLA Social and community development
Lauren Quan-Madrid 2nd year lauren.qm@gmail.com Los Angeles, CA UC Berkeley Sustainable land use
Raabia Budhwani 2nd year raabia.budhwani@usc.edu Atlanta, GA Emory University Economic & international development
Jeanelyn "Joy" Kwong 1st year joykwong@gmail.com Cebu, Philippines & Buena Park, CA USC Economic & international development
Richard Marshalian 1st year marshali@usc.edu Tujunga, CA Thomas Aquinas College Economic & international development
Julie Mech 1st year jmech@usc.edu Chicago, IL Savannah College of Art & Design Sustainable land use
Sen Sugano Progressive sensugano@gmail.com Downey, CA USC Economic & international development
Mary Kuhn 1st year mkuhn@usc.edu Courtland, KS University of Dallas Generalist

Doctor of Philosophy in Policy, Planning, and Development (Ph.D.)

Name E-mail
Meredith Drake mereditd@usc.edu
Elena Maggioni maggioni@usc.edu
Erin McMorrow emcmorro@usc.edu

Doctor of Policy, Planning, and Development (DPPD)

Name E-mail
Matthew Bogaard bogaard@usc.edu
John Dewar jdewar@usc.edu