Graduation Date: June 2009
Degree(s): M. A., Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies; B.S., Earth Systems, Anthrosphere Track

While at Stanford, Saya received an Undergraduate Research Fellowship to construct a stable isotope record of the Early Oligocene with Robert Dunbar's Stable Isotope Lab, an Ernest Hollings Fellowship to research sea surface change and razor clams with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Alaska, and a Department of Education FLAS scholarship to study advanced Russian at Moscow State University. After graduating, she interned with the Center for American Progress energy team and the Climate Institute in Washington, DC. She began her MAP Fellowship with the Worldwatch Institute in time to help launch Worldwatch's Natural Gas and Sustainable Energy Initiative at an event in Copenhagen.