Eddie Triste is a Mescalero Apache, a veteran and recent graduate of Allan Hancock College.  He was a CNS-INSET Summer intern in 2012.  He worked with Cassandra Engeman in IRG3 where gathering data on Non-Governmental Organizations or NGO’s to see their potential impact on policy and industry as it relates to nanotechnology. In fall 2012 he started courses at California Sate University, Sacramento where he plans to pursue a Bachelors degree in Sociology.