Laura is a program officer in the Climate and Clean Energy Program of the Heising-Simons Foundation, where she leads the Foundation's efforts to support grantees working to reduce emissions from the utility sectors. From 2008-2019, Laura...
Steve Chase, a Leadership Grant Recepient, was the founding Director of the Environmental Studies masters program in Advocacy for Social Justice and Sustainability at Antioch University New England from 2002 to 2014. He has worked as the...
Matthew Hanscom Davis was previously a Congressional Liaison Specialist at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (U.S. EPA's) Office of Congressional and Intergovernmental Relations. There, he represents EPA to congressional offices...
Dr. Amber Pairis is the Founder and Lead Advisor of the Climate Science Alliance and Associate Research Faculty with the Western Regional Climate Center at the Desert Research Institute. The Climate Science Alliance was created in 2015 out...
Xantha works to advance cross-sector decarbonization through transportation and building electrification as a consultant at Energy and Environmental Economics, Inc.
Karen Gaffney oversees the Conservation Planning program at the Sonoma County Agricultural Preservation & Open Space District. Previously, she was a CEO of West Coast Watershed - a small dynamic partnership focused on watershed planning and...
Heather Coleman is Senior Program Officer for Environment at Wallace Global Fund. Prior to joining the Fund, she served as climate and energy director at Oxfam America, overseeing efforts to push for climate action globally, to address...
Holmes Hummel is the founder of Clean Energy Works, which connects champions of energy efficiency and renewable energy with resources that accelerate investment in the deployment of clean energy solutions. In addition, Dr. Hummel is on the...
Derek is an assistant professor in the the Department of Economics at the University of Arizona. He holds a Ph.D. in Energy and Resources (2011) and an M.A. in Economics (2010) from UC Berkeley. Derek's interdisciplinary dissertation...
Jim was previously the Executive Editor of California Agriculture, the peer-reviewed journal of the University of California Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources. He has worked in natural resource management for 20 years as a...
