Kamaria Kuling was born and raised on the Sunshine Coast in British Columbia, Canada. She moved to Vancouver in 2012 to study physics at the University of British Columbia. Currently, she is working towards her master’s at Simon Fraser University in the Sustainable Energy Engineering program. Her research focuses on Climate, Land, Energy, and Water system (CLEWs) modelling and, as a Living Lab Scholar, modelling the transition of SFU operational vehicles to electric vehicles.