Déjà’s work focuses on managing the Center for Racial Equity at Work's programmatic priorities including strategic partnerships and research with the Southern California Black Worker Hub for Regional Organizing and the implementation of our...
Teniope Adewumi-Gunn is currently a Science Fellow at NRDC focusing on the intersection of climate change and worker health. Her research looks for solutions to address the climate impacts faced by workers, with a focus on underserved...
Karen Díaz is an advocate on issues of food justice and outdoor equity. She received a dual Masters of Urban and Regional Planning at the Luskin School of Public Affairs and a Masters of Public Health at the Fielding School of Public Health...
Dr. David Gonzalez is currently a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Division of Cardiology at the David Geffen School Medicine at UCLA. His current research investigates the impact of air pollution and e-cigarette exposure on lung inflammation...
Aaron Ordower serves as Senior Policy Deputy for Los Angeles Councilmember Paul Krekorian. Aaron staffs the councilmember on the Energy, Climate Change, and Environmental Justice and the Housing committees of City Council. Aaron’s portfolio...
R. Jisung Park is an assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania. Previously, he was an assistant professor at UCLA in the Department of Public Policy, where he held a joint appointment with the Fielding School of Public Health in...
Isella Ramirez (she/her/ella) is a Chicana urban planner, a seasoned facilitator, and capacity builder with 17 years of experience in the nonprofit sector. Prior to joining the Moving Forward Network, she was the Director of Community...
Mike helps people and institutions navigate place, time and culture to achieve sustainable, just, and equitable outcomes. His experience includes extensive work and research about effective engagement between agencies and communities...
Devaughn is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at UCLA. She earned her bachelor’s degree in Integrative Biology from UC Berkeley and spent several years working on a variety of field projects...
John is pursuing doctoral studies at UCLA, where his research engages a vexing question: what happens when ‘climate change adaptation’ isn’t adaptive? His current research builds a case study on the outskirts of Dakar, Senegal, where...
