UCLA

Karen Díaz is a student and advocate on issues of food justice and outdoor equity. She is pursuing 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...

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...

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...

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...

Isella Ramirez is currently a Project Manager with Hester Street Collaborative in New York City. Ramirez grew up in the City of Commerce; a community overburdened with industrial pollution a few miles southeast of downtown Los Angeles. For...

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...

Miriam Torres is an environmental justice advocate, urban planner, collaborator, and mother. Currently, Miriam is a Principal Environmental Planner in the Planning and Climate Protection Division of the Bay Area Air Quality Management...