Yvette Vargas

Yvette Vargas (she/her) currently serves as the Policy Education Coordinator (Learning Measurement & Evaluation). Yvette first served as a Project Lead in the Spring 2025 cohort blueprinting the City of Albuquerque (NM) AI Municipal Framework. She is a nontraditional student: an Film and Media Studies and Comparative Literature undergraduate from UC Irvine and an Information and Management System master graduate from UC Berkeley's School of Information. Past endeavors include being a 2024 Human Rights Center Fellow (Berkeley Law), a Senior and Lead Consultant for Berkeley's Cybersecurity Clinic, a Community Editor for the Listening Post Collective, and educator for nearly 4 years.

In their current role, Yvette handles program efficiency and curriculum design through statistical and instrument assessment, coding frameworks, cohort evaluation, and programming facilitation for the fellowship. Yvette hopes to pursue their career as a Information Scientist and Professor with a focus on information technology and civic law for Latino communities.

Yvette enjoys weightlifting, Pilates, classic cinema, and science fiction novels from Octavia Butler, Ray Bradbury, and countless other authors and artists.