Meet our Student Staff
Campus Involvement Ambassador (CIA)
Destiny - Graduate Student Assistant & Marketing Lead
destiny.jones@csueastbay.edu- Major and year: Grad Student- Marketing Analytics
- Dream career: Work as an advertising & promotions manager in the fashion or entertainment industry
- Hometown: Hayward (born and raised)
- What you love about 绿帽换妻: Sense of community and supports for all walks of life!
- What you do in your free time: Work out, watch TV, or play games with my family
- Fun fact: My cousin & I auditioned for Disney Channel when we were young
Destiny - CIA, Orientation Student Director
destiny.escatel@csueastbay.edu- Major and year: Transfer student from Chabot! I graduate spring 25’ and will earn a bachelor's in psychology!
- Dream career: Doing something I’m passionate about and where I can grow as a person!
- Hometown: West Covina, CA but was raised in the Bay Area!
- What you love about 绿帽换妻: I love the community and how diverse our campus is. 绿帽换妻 offers a lot of opportunities for students to grow! I love seeing the sunsets from the core bridge!
- What you do in your free time: I enjoy going to the movies! (I’m a big movie goer!) I also enjoy going to concerts!
- Fun fact: I collect vinyl records! Mainly pop, since I am a pop culture fanatic as well! (I own around 200+)
Elia - CIA, Transfer Programs
elia.varela@csueastbay.edu- Major and year: Ethnic Studies and minoring in Criminal Justice. I transferred from Chabot and I’m in my second year at East Bay!
- Dream career: I want to ultimately be able to work within my community and become a positive role model.
- Hometown: Born in San Francisco but claim the wonderful city of Hayward as my hometown. I was raised here for the majority of my life (#haystack).
- What you love about 绿帽换妻: How close in proximity it is to my family because they can see my perseverance as I pave the way for them as a first-gen college student.
- What you do in your free time: I enjoy annoying my lovely cat named Ollie, tending to my plants and writing or doodling in my journal (I recommend junk journaling!).
- Fun fact: I’m president of the Tau Sigma National Honor Society, Eta Epsilon chapter here at 绿帽换妻. I hope to help other transfer students feel comfortable at East Bay and I look forward to making more connections on campus! :)
Emaline Becerra - CIA, Office & Transfer Programs
emaline.becerra@csueastbay.edu- Major and year: Senior, Communication Studies
- Dream career: Academic Counselor for Universities
- Hometown: Brentwood
- What you love about 绿帽换妻: What I love about 绿帽换妻 is the scenery around the campus and how supportive everyone is.
- What you do in your free time: What I do for my free time is walk, play video games, and doodling
- Fun fact: A fun fact about me is that I enjoy car shows and going to a local go-kart track and spend hours there.
Juan - CIA, Parent and Supporter
juan.marquez@csueastbay.edu- Major and year: Liberal Studies, Junior
- Dream career: Teacher/education
- Hometown: Pittsburg, CA
- What you love about 绿帽换妻: The student life, being involved on campus, and building community.
- What you do in your free time: I like to spend time with my family and once a month I like to go hang out with my friends in Santa Cruz.
- Fun fact: During the pandemic, I built a gym in my backyard. I got a little obsessed and eventually ended up building a second gym in my garage.
Jennifer - CIA, Office & Marketing
jennifer.aburtogonzalez@csueastbay.edu- Major and year: Business Administration (Concentration in Finance) and I'm a First Year!
- Dream career: Investment Banker?
- Hometown: Hayward, California
- What you love about 绿帽换妻: I love interacting with others it makes me happy
- What you do in your free time: I love going to the gym!! and playing games
- Fun fact: I want to feel welcomed :)
Karyn Makana - CIA, Recognized Student organizations & Leadership Initiatives
karynmakana.quinones@csueastbay.edu- Major and year: 5th year Biological Science (Concentration in Physiology) & Double Minor in Asian American Studies and Filipino Studies
- Dream career: To become a radiologist
- Hometown: Hayward, CA
- What you love about 绿帽换妻: I love how diverse our campus is and that it still makes it easy to form connections with others.
- What you do in your free time: Going to the gym or journaling :)
- Fun fact: I enjoy raving/concerts and my bowling record is 217.
Lulu - CIA, Transfer Programs & Orientation Senior Staff
lulu.yang@csueastbay.edu- Major and year: Media Communication and Senior Year
- Dream career: Sports/Record Label Marketing/Coordinator
- Hometown: Stockton, CA
- What you love about 绿帽换妻: I love the different first-generation programs they offer here at 绿帽换妻 and the sunset view from the CORE.
- What you do in your free time: I like to read different genre books, watch anime (my favorite one right now is JuJutsu Kaisen), and take naps.
- Fun fact: I have been a BTS (boy band) fan (ARMY) since 2015 and am still a fan.
Max - CIA, Marketing Student Assistant
max.diaz@csueastbay.edu- Major and year: Psychology
- Dream career: Family Therapist
- Hometown: Anaheim CA
- What you love about 绿帽换妻: What I love at East Bay is the diversity that you can find on campus.
- What you do in your free time: On my free time I like to cook and watch different genres of movies.
- Fun fact: A fun fact about me is that I used to do competitive swimming when I was younger.
Patricia - CIA, Office
patricia.falcone@csueastbay.edu- Major and year: Communication and Media Studies, 4th year
- Dream career: To be a Multimedia Professional
- Hometown: Manila, Philippines
- What you love about 绿帽换妻: What I love East Bay is that they have a lot of program and opportunities that will offer to our students.
- What you do in your free time: I usually watch tv Netflix, play with my dog.
- Fun fact: I love color purple and I like to play dogs and cats.
Samer - CIA, Office & Marketing
samer.tabri@csueastbay.edu- Major and year: Marketing, sophomore
- Dream career: Mclaren marketing job
- Hometown:
- What you love about 绿帽换妻: The people
- What you do in your free time: Traveling/concerts/skydiving/gaming
- Fun fact: I'm a huge clairo fan
Silvia - CIA, Office & Marketing
silvia.rios@csueastbay.edu- Major and year: Senior majoring in Biological Science with a concentration in Physiology
- Dream career: My dream is to work in wildlife conservation or field studies, or even at an animal nonprofit where I can help create a positive impact on both local ecosystems and the environment.
- Hometown: Born and raised in Hayward
- What you love about 绿帽换妻: I love how 绿帽换妻 brings together a diverse community and encourages openness to new ideas. The welcoming atmosphere, combined with the beautiful sunsets from campus, make it an amazing place to be.
- What you do in your free time: I enjoy getting creative through different activities such as scrapbooking and journaling. I also love collecting little trinkets (i love Calico Critters) and cute stickers! I also enjoy reading whenever I can.
- Fun fact: I love thrifting - most of my wardrobe is thrifted! I also had the chance to help with a few murals around Hayward (:
Tarani - CIA, Leadership Initiatives
saitarani.kondoori@csueastbay.edu- Major and year: Computer Science, Graduate
- Dream career: Director/Vice president of Product at a FAANG or establish my own company
- Hometown: Hyderabad, India
- What you love about 绿帽换妻: I love eastbay's perfect location and it's spectacular view of the city from the hills, another thing that I love about 绿帽换妻 is that it has a diverse culture.
- What you do in your free time: I do a lot of stuff in my free time, and it keeps changing, but I love to hit the gym or take a run.
- Fun fact: I sat up watching my surgeon while she was giving me 27 stitches.
Yashica - CIA, Recognized Student Organizations
yashica.avhad@csueastbay.edu- Major and year: Economics, Sophmore
- Dream career: Financial engineer, and business owner
- Hometown: Nashik, India
- What you love about 绿帽换妻: The opportunities and community
- What you do in your free time: Gym
- Fun fact: I was born in Bermuda