Carmen Das-Grande is a Senior Financial Analyst at Zendesk supporting the Finance & Strategy team. She graduated from Wheaton College (MA) with a degree in Economics in 2015.

One of her favorite parts of the UC Davis Part Time MBA so far has been getting to know her diverse cohort of classmates.

Her main reason for becoming an ambassador was the hope of being able to pass along the community energy to prospective students.

Muttika Chaturabul is a, Employee Relations Analyst on the Human Resources team at Blue Shield of California.  Prior to joining Blue Shield of California, Tika was a Program Manager at the University of California, Berkeley specializing in organization development and learning, program management, and leadership coaching and training for over 8 years.  She received her Bachelor’s in Social Welfare at UC Berkeley and is pursuing her Master of Business Administration at UC Davis Graduate School of Management (GSM).

Yasaman (Yasi) Dehnavi (Vice President) is a 2021 MBA candidate at GSM, interested in General Management and Marketing. She grew up in Iran and completed her undergraduate studies in Industrial Engineering and operational research at Amirkabir University of Technology.

She has experience in oil and gas industry and is currently working in a telecommunication company as a Project Manager.

In her spare time, she enjoys going to the gym, cooking traditional Persian food and traveling to new places.

Meagan Travlos joined the Bay Area Ambassador program in her first quarter to give back to the GSM community and help incoming students transition smoothly.

A Bay Area native, Travlos completed her undergraduate degree in sociology at Mills College in Oakland, California. She most recently worked at the Oakland Zoo as an education program manager, bringing together her love of kids and her passion for wildlife conservation. She hopes to bring business acumen to the non-profit world and create lasting change for our environment.