Hello Young Surveyors of Orange County!

My name is Emily Kubisty, and I am your Orange County Regional Director for the California Young Surveyors Network. I am super excited to be a part of the YSN, as surveying has quickly become one of my passions in my life. I started college at San Jose State University in 2018, moving all the way from biology to journalism until Covid hit in 2020, and I moved back home. In 2022, I decided it was time to dive back into my academic journey, which I would pick up at community college. With some encouragement from my dad (Mike Kubisty, PLS 8036) and my brother (Julian Kubisty, party chief of 10 years), I decided to enroll in Santiago Canyon College so that I could take Survey 118 and see if maybe surveying was right for me. Turns out it was! Incredible professors like Bryan Mundia and Mark Counts inspired me, encouraged me, and supported me through the beginning of my career.

I’ve been working at Michael Baker International for two years now as a GIT Technician II. I get my feet wet in the field every once in a while, but I enjoy drafting and the office side of surveying. I will be sitting for my FS Exam this year.

Mariam Youssef is my ‘right-hand-man’ as I start my journey as your OC YSN Regional Director, and I can’t express how grateful I am for her! She’s our social media manager, as well as OC CLSA’s, so anything cool you see about us online, likely came from her.