Polycast

Davy is an entrepreneur living in San Luis Obispo, CA and is pursuing an aerospace engineering degree at Cal Poly. He is the host of Polycast where he explores the lives of the Cal Poly community. Davy is an avid drone pilot experiencing every sunrise at the beach.

www.davidkozuch.com/episodes/50

Pete is interested in sustainability in all facets: energy, resources, equity, and collaboration and community building especially with people in developing countries. In what he sees as an imminent transition in energy, resources, and information, he is interested in both the technologies and the related societal transitions.

www.davidkozuch.com/episodes/49

Brett Foreman is a former Cal Poly student and the founder of Kick-it Points, an app that rewards users with deals at local businesses when they do activities around San Luis Obispo County — like hiking Bishop Peak or checking in on the Cal Poly campus (think Pokémon Go meets Groupon).

www.davidkozuch.com/episodes/48

David Arrivée has been fortunate to work with a variety of ensembles as a conductor, pianist, harpsichordist, and clarinetist. He is the director of the Cal Poly Symphony and a professor in the Cal Poly Music Department, where he teaches theory, musicianship, conducting, topics in history and chamber ensembles. He founded Cal Poly’s annual beach Week, which brings together faculty, students and guest artists to perform the vocal and instrumental works of J.S. Bach.

www.davidkozuch.com/episodes/47

Dr. Beaman is an internationally recognized expert on leadership, resilience, health and wellness, education, and coaching. She has conducted research in a host of areas, written many academic articles and books, and won numerous awards. Dr. B is the founder of Dream Makers SLO where community members volunteer to make the dreams of terminally ill adults come true.

https://www.davidkozuch.com/episodes/46

Haley is a nutrition major at Cal Poly and has just started her senior year. As a freshman, she joined the newly formed CalFresh program where she became very involved and has stuck with it all four years. Through this program, Haley has helped alleviate food insecurities among dozens of students.

https://www.davidkozuch.com/episodes/45

Judy is the Incubator Director for the Cal Poly Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the SLO HotHouse. She comes from years of experience as a corporate and securities attorney and currently provides legal advice to companies around SLO county. At the HotHouse, Judy leads programming to assist in the business development of over a dozen currently incubating companies.

https://www.davidkozuch.com/episodes/44

Dr. Erik Sapper is a professor in the Chemistry and Biochemistry department at Cal Poly. His research interests include using math, statistics, models, and machine learning to design new coatings and polymeric materials from the perspective of defeating failure, breakdown and degradation while optimizing performance and functionality.

https://www.davidkozuch.com/episodes/43

Anika Narula, the former president of Cal Poly’s Society for Environmental Engineers, discusses getting involved with her major and how it impacted her academic career at Cal Poly. She explains what an environmental engineer is and their hopes for a cleaner world. She is finishing up her last year as an undergraduate but will be staying at Cal Poly next year to work on a masters in Civil Engineering.

Alison attended Cal Poly as a philosophy major and has since studied to become a massage therapist. She ran her own practice in downtown San Luis Obispo where she performed orthopedic and oncology massage. Alison now lives in Chicago and is getting her Master’s in Occupational Therapy.