Profiles in Success

Haley Ali

Haley Ali is a senior at UC Davis pursuing a major in genetics and a minor in technology management. Her interests include traveling, listening to history podcasts and participating in thoughtful discussion—she’s not afraid to play devil’s advocate.

Reece Guyon

  • EQUIP Alumnus
Reece Guyon had grown, studied, worked and lived in England, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain and Germany before he entered UC Davis. He received his B.S. in chemical engineering and a minor in history in June 2020.  At UC Davis, Guyon has worked in campus security and is an intern at the UC Davis Coffee Center, the first multidisciplinary university research center to address the challenges and needs of the coffee industry through a holistic approach to coffee science and education. Today he is an associate optical field engineer at LightRiver Companies (Concord, Calif.) 

Sana Karimi

Sana Karimi graduated from the UC Davis College of Letters and Science with a B.A. in sociology and a minor in community regional development. Today she is an undergraduate academic advisor for the Psychological & Brain Sciences Department at UC Santa Barbara.  Karimi is a student of Taekwondo, a certified open-water diver, a reader and lover of nature. She participated in the first EQUIP program in 2019.

Mathew Magno

Mathew Magno combined his UC Davis education in computer science and technology management with his passion for entrepreneurship to co-found Japa Inc. with his classmate Charles Chen. “As a student it would take me 20 to 30 minutes sometimes to find a spot, circling parking lots and getting stressed out,” Magno recalls. “I decided to fix the problem of parking.” Magno is also the director and co-founder of PLASMA at UC Davis, the Aggie incubator that develops early stage startups into companies that can grow.

Karenna Rehorn

  • EQUIP Alumna
Karenna Rehorn is a current student studying biomedical engineering with an emphasis in cellular and tissue engineering. In the future she hopes to focus on helping individuals with autoimmune disorders. Rehorn is a DJ at the campus radio station, KDVS. Other interests include running, playing the flute, volunteering at the UC Davis farm and cooking. Today she is the president of the BioInnovation Group at UC Davis.

Anna Sadovnikova

Anna Sadovnikova, MPH, M.A., IBCLC started her career in public health and is now a M.D./Ph.D. candidate in mammary gland biology and breastfeeding medicine at the UC Davis School of Medicine. Sadovnikova is a NIH-funded investigator, receiving a 5-year F30 fellowship from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development to define the molecular mechanism by which stress negatively impacts lactation.

Christy Serrato

Throughout her career, Christy Serrato has made her mark in Northern California—and especially at UC Davis and in Sacramento. Serrato is the founder and CEO of Pair Anything Inc. and the program director and a founding fellow of the Sacramento Entrepreneurship Academy. She obtaining a B.A. in economics from UC Davis and later returned to campus to compete in the 2019 Big Bang! Business Competition, taking home the $10,000 Food + Agriculture Sector Award. Most recently, PairAnything has been featured on Good Day Sacramento and in the Davis Enterprise to showcase how the digital platform became even more relevant during COVID-19.

Eilee Shahidi

Eilee Shahidi is a junior-year business/managerial economics major, a marketing intern for UC Davis Undergraduate Admissions and a social media representative for Victoria Secret Pink for the UC Davis campus team. She is a 2021 EQUIP alumnus.

Munirah Talib-Din

  • EQUIP Alumna
Munirah Talib-Din graduated from UC Davis with a B.S. in economics and a minor in African American and African studies. As a student, she was a senior lead supervisor at the Testing Services Center on campus, where she enjoyed managing various projects as well as creating a welcoming environment for students and faculty. Talib-Din is interested in poetry, music, fashion, art and travel, and has an appreciation for the work of Botticelli, Bernini, Vermeer and other artists. Today she is a fashion and business development assistant at Rebecca Tembo (London, GB).

Allisa Tran

  • EQUIP Alumna
Allisa Tran graduated with a B.S. in biotechnology with a bioinformatics emphasis. She plans to use her interdisciplinary interests in biology and computer science to work in the biopharmaceutical industry and address unmet medical needs with unique technical solutions. Tran loves reading nonfiction books ranging from archaeological finds about ancient cultures to genetic discoveries in modern times. She loves Korean food.