Autumn has been a highly committed student at Youth Educational Services (YES) during her undergraduate career. She joined YES as a student assistant by happy chance, and her involvement has expanded in countless ways ever since. Autumn began as a student assistant on the Front Desk team and proved to be the kind of employee that supervisors dream of hiring. For the past two years, Autumn has been an enthusiastic and dedicated YES volunteer and student leader, contributing 140 hours (and counting!) to volunteering in the local community.

For the last two years of his academic career in Humboldt County, as a student member of the INRSEP (Indian Natural Resources, Science and Engineering Program + Diversity in STEM (INRSEP+) at Cal Poly) and an indigenous person of the Americas and beyond, Aerin embodies the INRSEP+ house mission– to braid ancestors' wisdom with modern Western science techniques and cutting-edge technologies to produce well-balanced leaders and professionals poised to be stewards of our world's resources.