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Climate Leadership after Paris

We may be past the news cycle that focused on the dramatic but not totally surprising move by President Trump to pull the US out of the Paris climate agreement, but as a foundation long committed to environmental leadership, we see the...
June 14, 2017
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Jeremy Poindexter

2017 Fellow
Jeremy Poindexter is currently a Senior Battery Engineer at Sila Nanotechnologies, working on integrating silicon-based materials into lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles to enhance energy storage and increase vehicle range. He has...
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Adam Hasz

2017 Fellow
Adam Hasz is a Home Energy Rebates Implementation Advisor for the U.S. Department of Energy. He strives to advance a more equitable clean energy economy through research and planning. Prior to joining the Department of Energy, Adam earned a...
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Daisy Benitez

2017 Fellow
Daisy is a senior consultant with EY's Climate Change and Sustainability Services group where she supports client's with their sustainability strategy, circular economy development, as well as analyzing the climate and water risk associated...
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Jolisa Brooks

2017 Fellow
Jolisa Brooks received her Masters of Environmental Science from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. At Yale, Jolisa's work focused on the geopolitics of energy development and the resource curse in the Balkans. During...
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Jonathan Moch

2017 Fellow
Dr. Jonathan Moch is the Senior Advisor for Climate and Energy Policy in the Office of North Carolina Governor Josh Stein. Previously, Jonathan was Science and Technology Policy Advisor for the Office of the Special Presidential Envoy for Climate and Office of Global Change in the U.S. Department of State, where he designed, negotiated, and implemented international climate and energy initiatives and agreements. He holds a Ph.D. in Earth and Planetary Sciences from Harvard University.
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Bruni Pizarro

2017 Fellow
Bruni Pizarro (she/ella) is the Director of Brand Strategy & Partner at For La Diáspora, a creative studio that connects brands to the Latine community through culturally-driven design and bilingual communications. Her family migrated from...
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Is the Paris climate accord unfair to the U.S.?

Fellow Jason Grumet appeared on a PBS News Hour segment that dug into President Trump's reasons why he thought the Paris climate accord was a bad idea. Watch the segment on YouTube
June 6, 2017
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Joan Dudney

2017 Fellow
Joan Dudney is an Assistant Professor of Global Change Ecology at the Bren School and the Department of Environmental Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Research in the Landscapes of Change (LOC) Lab is focused on...
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Zineb Bouzoubaa

2017 Fellow
Zineb Bouzoubaa is a Senior Data Climate Specialist at Bloomberg, where she is part of the newly-formed GFANZ (Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero) team. In this role, she uses data to drive the global financial sector’s work to ensure...