Mark Tompkins earned his Ph.D. in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning at UC Berkeley, where he investigated the role of floodplains in river restoration efforts. Floodplains provide important aquatic and...
John T. Andrew is Assistant Deputy Director of the California Department of Water Resources, where since 2006 he has overseen the Department’s climate change activities. His previous organizational affiliations include the Stege Sanitary...
Dr. Michael Wilson is National Director for Occupational and Environmental Health at the BlueGreen Alliance, a coalition of labor unions and environmental NGOs, where he leads the organization’s efforts to protect workers and vulnerable...
A 2009 Switzer Fellow, Alexa graduated from a joint law and public policy degree program at UCLA's Law School and School of Public Affairs in 2011. She focused her studies on environmental law and policy, especially as it is applied to...
Dara O’Rourke is an Associate Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and the co-founder of GoodGuide.com. Dara has spent the last 20 years researching the environmental, labor, and health impacts of global production systems...
Doug Johnson has been executive director of the nonprofit California Invasive Plant Council since 2002. He currently serves on California's Invasive Species Advisory Committee (www.iscc.ca.gov) and as an officer with the National...
Leslie currently is the Advisory Council Coordinator at the Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary in San Francisco. She is the recipient of a Switzer Leadership grant this year, to coordinate a stakeholder process focused on...
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...
Xantha works to advance cross-sector decarbonization through transportation and building electrification as a consultant at Energy and Environmental Economics, Inc.
Dinah began her environmental management career in Budapest, Hungary in 1992 when she organized and launched the first office paper recycling system in Budapest office buildings. Working with the Ministry for Environment, Budapest City...
