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CMP Student Kathy Vega speaks at the United Nations

Katherine Vega

Engineering Physics Student, Fullerton College

Challenge: How Can Individuals and Corporations Manage and Reduce their Carbon Contributions?

Solution: Direct Methane Conversion – Changing Emissions to Graphene and Hydrogen Fuel

Katherine Vega focuses on the development of emerging and innovative technology. She represents Aeolus’s Breath, a team comprised of unique backgrounds, ages, and expertise. Their ongoing goal is to seal gaps between existing technology and solutions for global health and growth. Vega’s passion for learning motivated her to bring together great minds to form an engineering team last fall. They have worked on designing systems to support scientific advancements, such as an anchor for use in a microgravity environment and Direct Methane Conversion. Vega seeks to ensure the exceptional quality of tasks, contributes to scientific research supporting proposed technologies, and inspires a healthy team culture. She is pursuing a degree in Engineering Physics and hopes to bridge scientific knowledge with creative thought to contribute to humanity’s progress on and off Earth.

Morris O’Kelly, guest Speaker at the CMP Luncheon

Daryl Carter, Guest Speaker at CMP Luncheon

John Page, guest speaker at the OCUF Scholarship Luncheon

John Page is Senior Vice President, Chief Corporate Social Responsibility Officer and Chief Legal Officer of Golden State Foods Corp., a privately held $7 Billion Food Processing and Distribution company to the Quick Service and Casual Dining Food Service industries. John also currently serves as the National and Global Chair of the Association of Corporate Counsel, and is Past-President of the National Bar Association.

John has over 20 years of practicing as an attorney both as outside and in-house counsel. He is on the Executive Committee of Golden State Foods, one of the largest privately held companies in the United States, serving as GSF's Corporate Secretary. As Chief Legal Officer, John is responsible for all legal, governance and compliance matters.

A native of Brooklyn, New York, John is a 1987 cum laude graduate of Pace University receiving a B.A. in Political Science and minor in History. While at Pace, he was selected to membership in the Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society. John is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where he was an editor of the University of Pennsylvania Law Review. John currently serves on the Board of Tuskegee University.