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Major: Master’s in Public Administration

College of Letters, Arts, and Social Sciences

Activities: American Planning Association, Inland Empire chapter; Women in Transportation, Inland Empire chapter; Multimodal Mobility Administrator, County of San Bernardino; travel; reading 

For Mairany, the path to public administration began with a desire to make her community stronger and more connected. Growing up in the Inland Empire and as the first in her family to attend school in the United States, she understands how public service can feel distant from the people it’s meant to serve. As an undergraduate, she was drawn to work that could make a real difference, especially for people who shared her lived experiences. That led her to a CivicSpark Fellowship at the San Bernardino County Transportation Authority, where she helped address sustainability and transit equity. She later joined the agency full-time as a multimodal mobility administrator, developing programs to make public transit more affordable, accessible and environmentally sustainable. Mairany believes transit can reduce pollution, fight climate change and connect communities. Through the American Planning Association and Women’s Transportation Seminar, she mentors young professionals of color, guided by her parents’ example and her belief that “if they could build a life in a country where they didn’t speak the language, I can do anything I set my mind to,” turning perseverance into pathways for others.