Alyssa (she/her) is a current Goldman School of Public Policy (GSPP) student pursuing a Master of Public Policy (MPP). Her Communication Studies and Political Science undergraduate degree was received from California State University, Sacramento. In her time in Sacramento, Alyssa has worked for the Newsom Administration crafting the state budget at the Department of Finance and spent a few years working for various elected officials as a Legislative Aide in the California State Legislature, working on Cal Grant Reform, getting the UC system to accept the Associate Degree for Transfer (ADT), and broadly, higher education access and equity, and addressing anti-Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) hate.
Alyssa grew up in a Filipino-American household in the North Bay Area of California in Solano County. She is most interested in contributing to equity research related to higher education equity, wage equity, worker’s rights among women and people of color, police enforcement in communities of color, and addressing recidivism among communities of color–all things she has only scratched the surface of in the State Legislature.
