Member Bios
Naja Chaidez
Naja is our anthropologist. She facilitated the empathize phase. She interviewed locals and wrote the local narrative. She looked at all the information we gathered in our interviews, and separated it into categories.
Check out her digital portfolio where she describes her previous projects.
http://najachaidez2019.weebly.com/
Check out her digital portfolio where she describes her previous projects.
http://najachaidez2019.weebly.com/
Michael Savala
Michael is one of our politicians. He is helped facilitate the ideate phase in which he connects with local business owners to get them involved in the designing of our project. He wrote our mission statement and, with Javier, wrote the piece detaing experiences of our users.
Check out his digital portfolio and his projects of his high school career.
https://sites.google.com/a/hightechhigh.org/michael-savala-s-digital-portfolio/home
Check out his digital portfolio and his projects of his high school career.
https://sites.google.com/a/hightechhigh.org/michael-savala-s-digital-portfolio/home
Anakarimhe Mercado
Anakarimhe is one of our scientists. She will help facilitate the prototype phase of our project. She gathers scientific data that applies to life in the community. She, alongside Azzael, create surveys which are conducted both inside and out of our community to help us figure out how to improve the fair. They then analyze and compile this data to help determine how we should move forward.
Check out her digital portfolio where she details the previous projects she has done.
Check out her digital portfolio where she details the previous projects she has done.
Valdemar Perez III
Valdemar is one of our journalists. He helped facilitate the define phase in which we defined the biggest need with the community that the people felt needed to be addressed. He helped research the problems, and figure out through the interviews and scientific data provided by the scientists which was the biggest need plaguing the community.
Check out his digital portfolio and his previous projects.
http://valdemarperez2019.weebly.com
Check out his digital portfolio and his previous projects.
http://valdemarperez2019.weebly.com
Claudia Sevilla
Claudia is one of our education liaisons. She helps facilitate the test phase. Her job has been to reach out to local schools to try and get them on board with the project. We want to involve community members of all ages, and this includes elementary, middle school, and high school age kids so that we bring all of the community together, not just the adults. She and Vania have contacted the Copley-Price YMCA because the local schools have not responded to them.
Check out her digital portfolio where she details her previous projects.
http://claudiasevilla2019.weebly.com/
Check out her digital portfolio where she details her previous projects.
http://claudiasevilla2019.weebly.com/
Azzael De la Torre
Azzael is our second scientist. He has helped Anakrimhe compile articles and other scientific evidence to show what living in City Heights is like. He helps create surveys which we conduct inside and out of our community. He and Anakarimhe then analyze and compile this data to help determine how we should move forward.
Easter Murphy
Easter is our second journalist. She and Valdemar facilitated the define phase of the project, and she helped connect the information found in the interviews to the information found in the articles from the scientists. She also writes and updates this website.
Check out her digital portfolio where she writes about the projects she has done in high school so far.
emurphy2019.weebly.com
Check out her digital portfolio where she writes about the projects she has done in high school so far.
emurphy2019.weebly.com
Javier De Guzman
Javier is our second politician. He assisted Michael facilitate the ideate phase of the project. They called local business owners to get their feedback, and to try to get them involved in the creation of our project. He also helped write the writing piece about our user, which is in Spanish.
Vania Alonso
Vania is our second education liaison. She helps Claudia facilitate the test phase of the project. They are currently reaching out to local schools to get the students and staff involved. They also contacted the Copley-Price Family YMCA because the local schools were not responding to them.
Check out her digital portfolio where she describes what she has done throughout her high school career.
vanianaomi.weebly.com
Check out her digital portfolio where she describes what she has done throughout her high school career.
vanianaomi.weebly.com