Participants

Hosts

Ned Helme, Executive Director
Center for Environmental Public Policy
Goldman School of Public Policy
University of California, Berkeley

Janet Napolitano, President
Office of the President, University of California
Matt St. Clair, Director of Sustainability, UCOP

Adrienne Alvord
California and Western States Director
Union of Concerned Scientists

Aimee Barnes
Senior Advisor
Office of Governor Jerry Brown

Nidia Bautista
Consultant
Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee

K C Bishop
Senior Consultant, California State Relations
Chevron Corporation

John Brauer
Executive Director
Workforce and Economic Development
California Labor Federation

Jack P. Broadbent
Executive Officer
Bay Area Air Quality Management District (BAAQMD)

Jose Carmona
California Program Director
Energy Foundation

Caroline Choi
Senior Vice President, Regulatory Affairs
Edison International
Southern California Edison

Ashley Conrad-Saydah
Deputy Secretary for Climate Policy
California Environmental Protection Agency
(CalEPA)

Hector De La Torre
Member
California Air Resources Board

Cesar Diaz
Political and Legislative Director
State Building and Construction Trades Council of California

Quentin Foster
Director, California Climate and Energy
Environmental Defense Fund

John Gioia
Member
California Air Resources Board

Ms. Margaret Gordon
Co-Director
West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project

Sekita Grant
Environmental Equity Legal Counsel
The Greenlining Institute

Larry Greene
Executive Director/Air Pollution Control Officer
Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management District (SMAQMD)

Stephen Konig
Director, Government and Public Affairs
Tesoro Companies, Inc.

Melissa Lavinson
Vice President, Federal Affairs and Policy and Chief Sustainability Officer
Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E)

Marie Liu
Office of California Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon

Lawrence Lingbloom
Chief Consultant
Assembly Committee on Natural Resources

Roger Lin
Staff Attorney
Communities for a Better Environment

Arsenio Mataka
Assistant Secretary for Environmental Justice and Tribal Affairs
California Environmental Protection Agency

Mike Mielke
Sr. Vice President Environment & Energy
Silicon Valley Leadership Group
Executive Director, California Climate Breakthrough Initiative

Ralph J. Moran
Sr. Director, California Government & Public Affairs
BP America Inc.

Scott Murtishaw
Energy Advisor for President Michael Picker
California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC)

Wayne Nastri
Executive Officer
South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD)

Brent Newell
Legal Director
Center on Race, Poverty and the Environment

Mary Nichols
Chair
California Air Resources Board

Ann Notthoff
California Advocacy Director
Natural Resources Defense Council

Luis Olmedo
Executive Director
Comite Civico Del Valle, Inc.

Cliff Rechtschaffen
Commissioner
California Public Utilities Commission

Catherine Reheis-Boyd
President
Western States Petroleum Association (WSPA)

Alice Reynolds
Senior Advisor, Climate, Energy and Environment
Office of Governor Jerry Brown

Dorothy Rothrock
President
California Manufacturers & Technology Association (CMTA)

Phoebe Seaton
Co-Founder and Co-Director
Leadership Counsel

Parin Shah
Senior Strategist
Asian Pacific Environmental Network (APEN)

Arnie Sowell
Vice President of California Policy
NextGen Climate

Nancy Sutley
Chief of Sustainability and Economic Development Officer
Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP)

Ashley Swearengin
President and CEO
Central Valley Community Foundation

Amy Vanderwarker
Co-Director
California Environmental Justice Alliance (CEJA)

Sarah L. White, Ph.D.
Deputy Director, Equity, Climate, and Jobs
California Workforce Development Board

Randall Winston
Executive Director
California Strategic Growth Council

Andy Wunder
Manager
California Program
Ceres, Inc.

Maximillian Auffhammer
George Pardee Jr. Professor of
International Sustainable Development and
Associate Dean of Interdisciplinary Studies
Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, International and Area Studies, UC Berkeley

Ann Carlson
Professor and Co-Director
Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, UCLA

Lara Cushing
Assistant Professor, Department of Health Education
San Francisco State University
Visiting Scholar,Energy & Resources Group

J.R DeShazo
Luskin Center Director, Professor of Public Policy, Urban Planning and Civil and Environmental Engineering
UCLA Luskin Center Energy Institute

Meredith Fowlie
Associate Professor
Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, UC Berkeley

Lee Friedman
Professor
Goldman School of Public Policy, UC Berkeley

Carol Galante
Donald Terner Distinguished Professor in Affordable Housing and Urban Policy
Faculty Director, Terner Center for Housing Innovation
College of Environmental Design, UC Berkeley

Barbara Haya, PhD.
Research Fellow
Berkeley Energy & Climate Institute
UC Berkeley

Solomon Hsiang
Chancellor’s Associate Professor of Public Policy
Goldman School of Public Policy, UC Berkeley

Daniel Kammen
Professor
Goldman School of Public Policy, UC Berkeley

Rachel Morello-Frosch
Professor
Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management &
School of Public Health
Chair, Society and Environment Division, Dept of ESPM
UC Berkeley

Reed Walker
Assistant Professor
Haas School of Business, Business and Public PolicyDepartment of Economics, UC Berkeley

Carol Zabin, Ph.D.
Research Director, Center for Labor Research and Education
Chair, Don Vial Center for Employment in the Green Economy
Institute for Research on Labor and Employment,
UC Berkeley