Transdisciplinary Team
The CRC2 Transdisciplinary Team
Ram Ramanathan (Chair): UCSD & Council Member- Pontifical Academy of Sciences, Vatican City and Co-Chair Vatican's Climate Resilience Initiative
Samuel Assefa (Co-Chair): Director, Governor’s Office of Land Use & Climate Innovation; Chair, Strategic Growth Council
Debra Gore-Mann (Co-Chair): Former CEO, Greenlining Institute, Oakland
Christina Christie (Co-Chair): Dean, School of Education, UC Los Angeles
Abby Edwards (Co-Chair): Climate Deputy Director, Governor’s Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation
Fonna Forman (Co-Chair): Director, UCSD Center on Global Justice, UC San Diego
Jonathan Parfrey (Co-Chair): CEO, Climate Resolve
Steering Committee
David Ackerly: Dean, College of Natural Resources, UC Berkeley Biodiversity and Nature Based Solutions
Nathan Bangston: Interim Director, Climate Resilience and Adaptation, PG&E
Louise Bedsworth: (Executive Director, the Center for Law, Energy, and the Environment, UC Berkeley) Adaptation; Partnership with Mayors and State Government; Chair, CRC2 Blueprints Committee.
Nicole Capretz: CEO, Climate Action Campaign, San Diego and SoCal. Mitigation and Resilience- Actions to Policies
Christina Christie: Dean, School of Education, UC Los Angeles
Ellie Cohen: CEO, The Climate Center. Cross-boundary, collaborative and just-solutions to climate change
Erin Coutts: AICP Candidate, Executive Director, Los Angeles Regional Collaborative for Climate Action and Sustainability (LARC)
Karen Cowe: CEO, Ten Strands. Climate Literacy
Anuj Desai: Senior Advisor, Southern California Edison
Abby Edwards: Climate Deputy Director, Governor’s Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation
Fonna Forman: (Director, UCSD Center on Global Justice on Climate-forced Migration & Co-Chair, Global Climate Leadership Council - UC Office of President) Director: Migration; Bending the Curve Education Protocol
Karen Gaffney: Director of Strategic Planning & Communication, North Coast Resource Partnership
Alex Ghenis: Director, Accessible Climate Strategies
Erminia Guarneri, MD: Integrative Medicine; Founding President, Academy of Integrative Health and Medicine); Climate Change, Sustainability and Public Health
Nuin-Tara Key: Executive Director of Programs, California Forward
Terre Logston: Chief Climate Resiliency Officer/Tribal Liaison, Lake County
David Loya: Community Development Director, Arcata
Amy Luers: Global Director, Sustainability Science, Microsoft
Jyoti Mishra: (Director, NEAT Labs UCSD, Co-Director for the UC wide Climate Change and Mental Health Initiative); Director, Public Health/Mental Health and Well-being
Saharnaz Mirzazad: Executive Director, ICLEI USA
Sherri Norris: Executive Director, California Indian Environmental Alliance
Amber Pairis: Executive Director, Climate Science Alliance
Jonathan Parfrey: CEO of Climate Resolve, Los Angeles
Meighen Speiser: Executive Director, ecoAmerica
Matthew St Clair: Sustainability Officer for UC System
Arianne Teherani, PhD: Founding Co-Director, UC Center for Climate, Health and Equity
Sheri Weiser, MD, MPH: Director, Center on Climate Change, Health and Equity, UC San Francisco
John Wentworth: Town Council, Town of Mammoth, California
Tiffany Wise-West: Sustainability Director, City of Santa Cruz
Maryanne Wolf: Director of the UCLA Center for Dyslexia, Diverse Learners, and Social Justice
Sigrid Wright: CEO of Community Environmental Council, Santa Barbara
Andra Yeghoian: CIO, Ten Strands; County Level Resilience
City/County Leaders (In progress)
Alexis Fineman: Council Member, Town of San Anselmo; former Mayor of San Anselmo
Rita Kampalath: Chief Sustainability Officer; County of Los Angeles
Joe LaCava: Council President, City of San Diego; Chair, City of San Diego Environment Committee
Advisory Board (In progress)
Wade Crowfoot: Secretary, California Natural Resources Agency
Chancellor Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco: Chancellor, Univ of Mass, Boston; Council Member, Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences