CRC2
Climate Resilient California & Californians
Santa Barbara Pre-summit Meeting
Link to the meeting notes for Santa Barbara
CRC2 Santa Barbara Pre-summit Meeting Attendees:
David Ackerly: Dean, College of Natural Resources, UC Berkeley Biodiversity and Nature Based
Solutions
Sarah Anderson: Professor and Associate Dean, UCSB BREN School
Samuel Assefa: (Co-Chair), Director, Governor of CA Office of Planning and Research
Louise Bedsworth: (Executive Dir., the Center for Law, Energy, and the Environment, UC Berkeley)
Director: Adaptation; Partnership with Mayors and State Government
Nicole Capretz: CEO, Climate Action Campaign, San Diego and SOCAl. Mitigation and Resilience-
Actions to Policies
Laura Capps: Santa Barbara County Supervisor District 2
Christina Christie: Wasserman Dean, School of Education, UCLA
Director:Climate Literacy; Chair: Los Sngeles Regional Summit
Ellie Cohen: CEO, The Climate Center. Cross-boundary, collaborative and just-solutions to climate
change
Karen Cowe: CEO, Ten Strands. Climate Literacy
Wade Crowfoot: Secretary, California Natural Resources Agency
Ranjit Deshmukh: Associate Professor - UCSB BREN School
Fonna Forman: (Director, UCSD Center on Global Justice & Co-Chair, Global Climate Leadership
Council- UC Office of President) Director: Migration; Bending the Curve Education Protocol
Steve Gaines: Dean, UCSB BREN School
Debra Gore-Mann: (Co-Chair), CEO, Greenlining Institute, Oakland
Erminia Guarneri, MD: Integrative Medicine; Founding Presdient, Academy of
Integrative Health and Medicine); Climate Change, Sustainability and Public Health
Joan Hartmann: Santa Barbara County Supervisor District 3
Robert Heilmayr: Associate Professor - UCSB BREN School
Em Johnson: Director, Climate Resilience, Community Environmental Council
Mike Jordan: Mayor Pro Tempore/Councilmember, District 2, City of Santa Barbara
Joe LaCava, Chair, San Diego City Council
Jyoti Mishra: (Director, NEATLabs UCSD, Co-Director for the UC wide Climate
Change and Mental Health Initiative); Director, Public Health/Mental Health and Well-
being
Mona Miyasato: Santa Barbara County Executive Officer
Jonathan Parfrey: Founder, Climate Resolve
"Ram" Ramanathan: (Chair) UCSD & Council Member- Pontifical Academy of
Sciences
Kaeleigh Reynolds: Project Manager, Sierra Business Council, Climate and Energy Team
Kristen Sneddon: Councilmember City of Santa Barbara
Chancellor Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco: Liaison to the Climate Change-Resilient
California and Californians project from Vatican’s Global Resilience Project
Sheri Weiser, MD, MPH: Director, Center on Climate Change, Health and Equity, UC
San Francisco
Maryanne Wolf: Director of the UCLA Center for Dyslexia, Diverse Learners, and
Social Justice; Advocate for children and literacy; Climate Literacy for diverse learners;
Liaison to Vatican’s Global- Climate resilience project
Sigrid Wright: CEO, Community Environmental Council
Andra Yeghoian: CIO, Ten Strands; County Level Resilience.