Business & Finance

Jeremy is a Strategic Partner at Kapwa Consulting, Principal at Upright Consulting Services, and the former executive director of Green For All, a national nonprofit he helped found in 2008. His consulting work draws on years of experience...

Megan oversees Dartmouth College's investments in real estate and timberland funds. She was formerly a consultant at Cambridge Associates, a financial advisory firm that serves college and university endowments, foundations and private...

Mary worked as a preservation planner for the San Francisco Planning Department for seven years. Before that she earned a Master’s degree in Geography at San Francisco State University. Her research focused on strategies to increase the...

Rita M. Hudetz is a 2007 Switzer Fellow. She recently joined natural food company Hu Kitchen as Chief Commercial Officer of Hu Products, to drive expansion of their retail product line. Prior to joining Hu, Rita was Director of Strategy for...

Peter Melhus is an emeritus Associate Professor of Management and Sustainable Business at San Francisco State University. He served as executive director of the Bay Area Alliance for Sustainable Communities, a multi-stakeholder...

Bruce Paton is retired professor of Management and Innovation. Before retiring in 2023, he served as a Dean, Department Chair, and MBA Program Director. He currently serves as Chair of the Santa Clara County Sustainability Commission and Board Co-Chair for SF Bay Bird Observatory.

Chris Larson is completing a Master’s Degree in Business Administration at the Yale School of Management (SOM). At SOM, and through coursework at the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, he is developing approaches to engage...

Sasha is the Ecoregional Ecologist at The Nature Conservancy for the Central coast of California, a region stretching from the Bay Area to Santa Barbara, and from the ocean to the Central Valley. Sasha obtained her doctorate from the...

Ann is a Senior Advisor, Climate Change Adaptation for the City of Seattle and Seattle Public Utilities. She focuses on leveraging SPU water management investments to generate broader multisector partnerships around equity-based public...